It was predictable, not specifically because of the pied noir mentality, but because this is the way an administration caught with its pants down habitually reacts under such circumstances; whether it be the British in Palestine, Cyprus or Northern Ireland, the Portuguese in Mozambique, or the French in Indo-China. First comes the mass indiscriminate round-up of suspects, most of them innocent but converted into ardent militants by the fact of their imprisonment; then the setting of faces against liberal reforms designed to tackle the root of the trouble; followed, finally, when too late, by a new, progressive policy of liberalisation.

XREF: Echoes the classic 'overreaction breeds radicalism' pattern seen across counterinsurgency history, from the French in Algeria to modern counterterrorism crackdowns.

Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Alge…, loc. 300