Appeasement has become a national tradition with France and is beginning to spread its destabilizing and destructive tentacles to other parts of Europe. The Islamic-led riots in France may be confusing to some Americans but the learned say it has been a long time coming.

In recent times appeasement silenced Europe when genocide was common in Kosovo. Even with TV news reports providing absolute proof of ongoing mass-murder, Europeans debated what they should do until the US took decisive action and came into Europe for the first time since World War II to do the Europeans' work for them.

Europe ignored nearly 500,000 victims of Saddam Hussein's torture and murder and -- motivated by self-righteousness, even as it is uncovered that the loudest critics of the American action in Iraq -- France made illicit billions in the U.N. Oil-for-Food program.

Paul Belien just wrote in the Brussels Journal : “Perhaps what we are witnessing in Europe, but what the politicians and the media dare not say aloud, is the implosion of the (welfare) state…The socialist welfare state is no longer able to maintain law and order and is abandoning entire neighborhoods to anarchy.”

He went on to write this about the French social-democratic welfare model: “It feeds on its own fiascos and will continue to do so until it collapses -- implodes -- under its own weight. Consequently it is an indestructible model. The only way out is for the implosion to come soon. If it does, then national disintegration may perhaps still be avoided. If it does not, the social fabric of the nation will be damaged beyond repair.”

While appeasement fails and riots ensue, the response is to try to buy, or legislate harmony. Invariably the cry arises that government hasn't done enough for the foreign arrivals. Many say that they must spend more money on welfare, or schools, or special programs to raise the consciousness of the poor foreign born.

France is now considering a National Islamic History Week. The French think that patience and appeasement will solve everything. Instead the problem gets worse. The majority population becomes angrier, but the Socialist government cannot anger their political base. The immigrant Muslims can loot and burn with impunity. According to the Socialist government, punishing misbehavior would engender more violence, which the government wants to avoid at any cost.

A failed civilization, Islamic countries send their unemployed and uneducated to Europe. Naturally they gravitate to slums because they have nowhere else to go. Through Islamic radical leadership, cohesive, angry, European Muslims, with no loyalty to their new home, do not assimilate into the society that hosts them. Resentment grows and the cities burn.

How could France let the rampage, destruction and lawlessness go on for so long?

I think David Horowitz, in a most common sense, but politically incorrect newsletter, has some insight on the recent events. He wrote on NewsMax.com: “The Muslim riots in France -- orchestrated by cell phones and a political directorate that has spread the violence not only across France but also across Europe -- is an obvious escalation of the Islamic jihad that seeks to conquer the infidel world for the Muslim faith. It would be unkind to say that the French deserve it, but they do. This is the country that has done more to sabotage the war on Islamic terror and Muslim imperialism than any other.  It has relentlessly preached appeasement of the enemy and condemnation of us as the chief obstacle to Islamic despotism.”

Horowitz went on to write: “The French were Saddam's and Islam's closest allies in the West.  Yet France is now the target of an Islamic jihad that is destroying the fabric of French society. The lesson for slow-witted liberals is this: The Islamic imperialists don't give a fig for what you do or what you say or what you believe about them. They are holy warriors.  You are infidels.  You will convert or die.

“History will judge harshly the saboteurs of George Bush's war to defend the West against radical Islam.  As a result of Bush's offensive, Osama Bin Laden and his henchmen are already effectively dead.  That is the only reason 300 million Americans have been safe from attack since 9/11.”

The radical Islamic jihad is a conflict that will most likely last longer than any of the great military conflicts of the last century -- a conflict conducted by an enemy that cannot be tamed by “tolerance” and “accommodation” but is actually spurred on by such gestures of appeasement. This has proven to be the case in France. The radical Islamists will always take good faith gestures as signs of weakness.

Islamic hostility toward the United States is often attributed to American support of Israel. There may be some truth in this. However, it does not explain the riots in Paris, the violence in other European countries, and the Islamic terrorism in Russia, Indonesia, Thailand, Saudi Arabia, or Jordan.

Many Americans must be asking questions about the future of Europe, particularly France, with its tradition of appeasement. As Neville Chamberlain learned with Germany in 1939, appeasement only emboldens the aggressors.