I’m with wideawake. The Reformation should never have happened and was one of the greatest tragedies in human history.
- The burning issue of it all:
Did the coalition of the Habsburgs and The Vatican have the right to make claims to (what today is known as) Germany as well as to France based on religious believes?
In any case, I think we agree the Thirty Years’ War left something resembling a never healing wound behind.
On the other hand, as a European I would say there's a lot of benevolent dialog taking place over these matters among us Europeans of today and that Europe IS possible to restore.
Chávez can't run the world, neither can China, India or Saudi Arabia of today.
A united Europe and a strong America working in unison COULD, once we Westerners realize how much a young man or woman from Glasgow, Britain has in common with a young man or woman from Dayton, Ohio risking his/her life fighting for the freedom of the proud nations of Iraq and Afghanistan.