"The Europeans, to include the Germans, are just too enamoured with socialism to break away from it."
Not really, only in France and Germany. The rest of Europe left socialism a long time ago. Check out the Heritage foundations "Index of economic freedom", most European countries score pretty high (In many cases higher than the US), but France and Germany are still relatively socialist.
"Europe is in serious decline. A selfish, live for today attitude tied with an unwillingness to confront Islamic radicalism or any potential foe for that matter, means Europe as a Western power is finished."
I agree with that, but it's not just the socialist parts. Even the liberal (in the european sense) capitalist countries there are weak and in decline (though not economic).
"Socialism as an economic and social model is poison to the human spirit."
I couldn't agree more. And couldn't have said it better myself.
I agree with you that it is not necessarily countries that are weak in defence and WOT must be economically socialist. One of the most extreme example is Luxembourg - it is economically rich and free market, but on foreign policy and WOT it is squarely anti-American in the Axis of Weasels sense.
The same is largely the official policy platform of successive New Zealand governments since the mid 1980s. Promoting free trade and pacifism and UN "international law" at the same time - I trust many of the pacifist Cato Institute members must be quite approving of this.
And to complicate matters there is the issue of social/moral conservatism, but there are probably other FRers more knowledgable on this.