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Posted on 02/05/2005 6:19:31 AM PST by NYer
The name-calling began with "the cowboy Reagan" as I recall.
But never mind. The cold fact is that the serfs of western Europe have willingly been led into a culdesac (little frenchyfrenchman lingo there) by feckless and corrupt leaders.
The antagonism of euros to America is indeed a cultural divide, one of which we should be proud. Every alcoholic bum who, too clever by half, has drunk himself out of a promising career and onto the street will grumble and disparage the neighbor who, by dint of hard work and relative discipline, has succeeded.
"Eurabia" threatens to become a struggle between two failed cultures, fighting over the remnant assets of the West, like two vagrants fighting over a sheltered spot under the bridge.
This is an excellent point. However, without a 'ten commandment' framework, how does a parent guide their child to "what is right". By whose standards? Because "I say so."? It works when children are small but once they reach the teen years, they heed their own small voices and predicate their decisions on what the government schools have taught them. I am most curious to see how this plays out with some of my coworkers who are in precisely that situation.
Eurabia" threatens to become a struggle between two failed cultures.
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Europe is not a failed culture. It is myriad of entirely different ones each with their own positive and negative aspects.
In other words the Europeans are mad at America because we acted in this case exactly like Europeans had for centuries and continue to the present day?
We be da pimp daddy, yo.
How true. I have some relatives who were conservative and well-balanced until they spent 15+ years in Germany. Now they have left their faith and become anti-American idiots.
Happily, my two brothers who have lived in Norway since the '70s, have managed to maintain their conservative beliefs and ideals and, hopefully, have "rubbed off" on their neighbors.
The French are like Javelinas. You can often smell them before you see them.
Good point! They love anything that is contrary to traditionalism.
The reason people get angry when someone says "We won the war for you" is that it negates the millions of people that bravely fought for the freedom of their common man.
I am sure you are making a humourous attempt but I have been close to fist fighting with people because of their disrespect for those that did not survive those five years of hell.
So what are we gonna do about Islam, the newest form of Nazism?
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And yet they think we're Nazis?
One of my most favorite books. Horowitz, in Radical Son, also makes a powerful point about Marxists. He wrote that they don't believe in the concept of original sin. In their minds it is the system of government that is always accountable for failure or utopia. And so it is that they must destroy the notion of a God and require all citizens to submit totally to the power, justice and perfect intent of the state.
I am an American who lives and works all over Europe. The people I come into contact with do not share his sentiments whatsoever. The people I meet are often very curious. They do not understand the games and the politics being played out in front of them...(I like those conversations the best). But As!Holes are everywhere. Every once in a while I meet one, It is just much easier for me to let them float down and around on their way out. The Euro majority find Americans to be very courageous. Furthermore, the vote in Iraq was a very big deal. So take all the Anti-US BS with a grain of salt and Pray that FOXNEWs opens up in Euroland, cause CNN International is all we get.... uuugggh
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No, it doesn't. However it does prove that over 50% of the voters in Massachusetts are blooming idiots.
+ a few others.
Your point is well taken, and we are fighting a European style culture war within our own country and hemisphere. That is another reason to hit hard and to hit now, before another "John Kerry" gets control. The Eurarabian virus has already taken hold in the Americas. It has become a fight or surrender situation. The time to deal is now and urgently now!
In 1995, my wife and I were in Paris and attended Mass at Notre Dame, and there were many French worshipers.
What your friend is saying indicates a big-time shift since then, unless there's some seasonal influence, where so many Americans attend that the French don't want to be there.
Nice analogy.
That is a fundamentally religious question. Rather than ask 'By whose standards?' try asking 'By what standards?' and whole schools of philosophy open up to answer the question. There are lots of answers to that question, but let me just say that there are two fundamental rival schools (within philsophy) that have been duelling for millenia. Virtually all philosophy developed from either Aristotle's ideas or Platos ideas. In addition to their religious beliefs, our founding fathers were well versed in Aristotilean rooted philosophy. Virtually all of modern academic philosophy (and European) is Platonic.
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