Under normal circumstances, it would be strange to announce that the French have surrendered in the face of a serious challenge. Making a big deal out of a French surrender would be like talking about a Canadian who profusely apologizes, or a Russian who gets drunk, or a North Korean who loves Dear Leader, or a young black male who got himself into some legal trouble. These kinds of things happen every day. And if I devoted any amount of effort to cataloguing all of the times in which the French have waved the white flag, we simply wouldn’t have time to discuss anything else.
But today, we’re going to talk about a French surrender, because this particular retreat has ramifications for the West at-large, and in particular for the United States. The French government has just announced that, for the first time, they’re going to cancel their traditional midnight concert on New Year’s Eve along the iconic Champs Élysées in Paris, which usually draws a crowd of more than a million people.
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