Old Europe Thinks It Knows the U.S. – It Doesn't

Town Hall ^ | October 7, 2004 | Suzanne Fields [Tribune Media Services]

[Restorer]

Thanks a lot for my new tagline.

[DSBull]

They HATE us!

Wahhahahahhhaha!!!,crying and screaming while running in circles, arms flaying.....

Let 'em eat cake...

[peyton randolph]

Let 'em eat cake...

Make them bathe daily, shave, and use deodorant.

[DJ MacWoW]

ping

[DSBull]

I understand that if Kerry is elected, he would support laws that require our women to not shave or bathe more than once a week..

[peyton randolph]

That would explain Teresa's hairdo...I'll assume she has the French lack of personal hygiene too.

[Richard Kimball]

Glad you posted this. Here's the dirty little secret that Bush knows, but can't say: Europe isn't relevent. The old Europeans are dying out. Sadly, at the same time they've become preoccupied with sex, they've also become preoccupied with killing their own offspring. I think the average number of children for European women is around 1.4, which is well below the replacement rate of around 2.1. Muslim women, OTOH, are having around five children each, and although I haven't seen the numbers, I'm betting that the average European woman is waiting until around 30 to have children, while the Muslim women are starting at 15 or 16. This means the Muslims woman's child is having her first child when the European woman is having her first child. Populationists are predicting a Muslim majority in 50 years, but I don't think it will take more than thirty.

Bush is trying to build a future. Kerry is, well, I don't think Kerry really wants to do anything except BE President. Whether people agree with Bush's policies or not, he recognizes that China, India, Central and South America, and yes, the Muslim world, are the forces of the future, and that the US will have to deal with them. Bush is making an attempt to modernize their societies, because he believes that it is possible for the fruits of Liberty to grow in these lands. Kerry simply wants to go to parties with old Europeans and be important. The old European aristocracy is dying.

Kerry still thinks they're important because they give cool parties. Bush is looking at the future.

[dementg]

The ridiculously lopsided Bush/Kerry poll results in Europe really only show one thing - the people of Europe are being brainwashed. Otherwise there's no way you'd see such lopsided polls.

[Billthedrill]

The European people know only what they've been told, and their monolithic media won't provide them with the variety of approach that might open their eyes a bit. The Internet is changing that, slowly. Europe really does have a ruling class and it does not believe its interests coincide with diversity of opinion.

It won't last. The threat of demographic, political, and military challenges from militant Islam will at last cause enough serious dissonance to bring the whole monolithic structure crashing to the ground. That is what happens to the inflexible. The question is how much of Europe will be left to save by the time that happens.

[RockinRight]

Very true analysis.

[Bonaparte]

"The question is how much of Europe will be left to save by the time that happens."

Why save it?

We saved it twice. Both times a mistake.

[endthematrix]

"Whether people agree with Bush's policies or not, he recognizes that China, India, Central and South America, and yes, the Muslim world, are the forces of the future, and that the US will have to deal with them."

We are dealing with them, now! A Kerry supporter walked by passing out literature. I said, "I'm one those people" pointing inside the truck full of Republican yard signs. I had my 18 month old son there and said I support Bush because when we could finish this war before he (my son) has to fight it. Kerry at every turn appeases, abets and comforts the enemy. With him at the helm, in twenty years, my whole family might be thrown into the war machine to defeat Muslim Imperialists.

[fire_eye]

Thank you. Hardly anyone dares to say that.

The fact that the poor little dears still, in this day and age, have to come whining to us for help to put out a brushfire war in the Balkans, where WW I started, is proof positive they didn't learn anything from *that* war.

Additionally, when I see the scum swilling Socialism and disarming themselves and spitting on us, it reinforces my belief that we didn't leave them under Hitler's boot for long enough for them to learn to appreciate their freedom.

[Bonaparte]

Half a century of communist tyranny worked wonders for East Europe. They're light years ahead of countries like france.

[DB]

Look at the bright side...

They have to live there...

[newfarm4000n]

Whether people agree with Bush's policies or not, he recognizes that China, India, Central and South America, and yes, the Muslim world, are the forces of the future, and that the US will have to deal with them. Bush is making an attempt to modernize their societies, because he believes that it is possible for the fruits of Liberty to grow in these lands


An otherwise good post but
(a) since when is central america relevant ?
(b) In India's case you need to distinguish liberty in general ( pretty high) from economic freedom ( not much).

[niteowl77]

From Bill Whittle's blog, a pognant, related observation:

An alliance of European powers is a chimera that no longer holds any significant value. That is a critical point. It is an essential point of delusion embedded in Senator Kerry’s world view. He waits for rescue from a knight long dead and moldering, sitting beneath a withered oak tree in rusted armor.

[niteowl77]

Well, perhaps poignant, if not pognant.

[shezza]

He waits for rescue from a knight long dead and moldering, sitting beneath a withered oak tree in rusted armor.

Well no wonder Kerry's book portrays a photo of an upside-down American flag. He's forever a damsel in distress.