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US can sit back and watch Europe implode
Chicago sun-Times ^ | Feb.27, 2005 | Mark Steyn

Posted on 02/27/2005 12:32:39 PM PST by Zivasmate

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To: 2ndreconmarine

You know what I guess that is when Europe started to really deteriorate in the first place

that huge wave of European migration after World War II, of which my parents were a part of, brought all the Europeans with chutzpah, work ethic, love of freedom over here and left the whiners, losers and lovers of the status quo at home.....so in essence Europe had a "courage drain"....

even in the 1950's my father felt there was so much bureaucracy etc in Holland that he'd have a better shot in Canada and man was he right.....although the encrouching bureaucracy here is getting down right annoying.....

of course Canada and America were founded by brave gutsy Europeans, sick of the aristocracy and the Church etc.....


21 posted on 02/27/2005 2:09:11 PM PST by llama hunter
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To: Zivasmate

and a security risk to be dealt with.


22 posted on 02/27/2005 2:09:31 PM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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To: hsalaw
A lot of the good ones left years or centuries ago, and became our parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, etc.What few are left, will soon figure out that they must follow the example that our ancestors set.
23 posted on 02/27/2005 2:11:06 PM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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To: mainepatsfan
"A 511 page constitution is designed so it's citizens won't be able to understand it."

Or that humped-up mush-headed judges can interpret any way they see fit.

24 posted on 02/27/2005 2:19:29 PM PST by nightdriver
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To: nightdriver

Heck U.S. judges do that with an 11 page constitution!


25 posted on 02/27/2005 2:21:10 PM PST by mainepatsfan
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To: Zivasmate

Visit Euroland Themepark soon! In 50 years, the islamist iconoclastic majority will reduce it to rubble.


26 posted on 02/27/2005 2:22:28 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (Democrat Obstructionists will be Daschled!)
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To: Zivasmate
...immigration numbers that no stable nation (not even America in the Ellis Island era) has ever successfully absorbed...

Perhaps, at some point, old Europeans might start moving here to get away from the mess they are allowing to happen.

27 posted on 02/27/2005 2:25:15 PM PST by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never...except to convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)
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To: llama hunter

Unnatural self-selection.

We are the genetic inheritors of people who said "F*** this S***!. I'm outta here!"


28 posted on 02/27/2005 2:26:39 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (Democrat Obstructionists will be Daschled!)
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To: llama hunter

"You know what I guess that is when Europe started to really deteriorate in the first place"


In the late 1970's the US and Europe were going in similar directions - down the crapper. Thatcher came and saved England, which is why England still has the most potential of all of Europe, and, you guessed it, Ronald Reagan came and completely turned around a spiraling downward America. G-d bless him.


29 posted on 02/27/2005 2:30:40 PM PST by Zivasmate (" A wise man's heart inclines him to his right, but a fool's heart to his left." - Ecclesiastes 10)
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To: hsalaw
A lot of the good ones left years or centuries ago, and became our parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, etc. Every morning when I put my flag up, I thank God my grandparents had the strength, courage, and determination to leave Europe for the New World, so I could be born and raised here.

Brilliant point!

30 posted on 02/27/2005 2:32:45 PM PST by Zman516
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To: Poser

It wasn't posted, it was excerpted.


31 posted on 02/27/2005 2:35:54 PM PST by csmusaret (Urban Sprawl is an oxymoron)
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To: Zivasmate

So where do you think all those whiney euros will end up migrating to?


32 posted on 02/27/2005 2:43:35 PM PST by Walkingfeather (q)
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To: elfman2

It would ahve if we had not moved immediately to prop it up by allowing unchecked immigration. Most of the illegals send a large part of their earnings back home, where it is spent. This keeps what's left of their economy afloat.


33 posted on 02/27/2005 2:54:08 PM PST by nuke rocketeer
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To: Walkingfeather

New Zealand?


34 posted on 02/27/2005 2:57:24 PM PST by Gumption (I'm waiting until the time is right.)
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To: Gumption

too small. Next guess..??? Anyone.... Anyone.... Buellor? Beullor?....


35 posted on 02/27/2005 3:00:22 PM PST by Walkingfeather (q)
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To: Zivasmate
According to Steyn, IMO the best writer in the business, Europe will become increasingly irrelevant, President Bush isbasically humoring their leaders, and our real worry is their growing Islamic population.

I'm sure that when Europe implodes, there will be a large hue and cry for us to save their butts again. B-P
36 posted on 02/27/2005 3:04:08 PM PST by Nowhere Man ("Liberalism is a mental disorder." - Michael Savage)
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To: Walkingfeather

Wherever they go, they will be surrounded by TROP. If they stay in Europe, they're prisoners in their own land and by then anywhere else they go - Malaysia, THailand , most of Africa and the Middle East, their welcoming hosts will be TROP. You reap what you sow.


37 posted on 02/27/2005 3:25:49 PM PST by Zivasmate (" A wise man's heart inclines him to his right, but a fool's heart to his left." - Ecclesiastes 10)
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To: Nowhere Man

Yeah, but this time, no freebies, like a Marshall Plan. We will rebuild Europe in America's conservative Judeo-Christian image. Otherwise let their anti-religious, multiculturalist, socialist liberals dig their own way out.


38 posted on 02/27/2005 3:37:41 PM PST by Zivasmate (" A wise man's heart inclines him to his right, but a fool's heart to his left." - Ecclesiastes 10)
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To: nuke rocketeer

Perhaps. Or something else would have prevented it. That’s what makes these long range catastrophic predictions of dynamic system so absurd. Something always interrupts.


39 posted on 02/27/2005 3:44:10 PM PST by elfman2 (Not paid to be PC)
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To: Sooth2222

[smile] I don't think that it’s the CIA that makes it absurd, it’s that anyone tries to predict something so far out of something so volatile and dynamic.


40 posted on 02/27/2005 3:48:33 PM PST by elfman2 (Not paid to be PC)
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