[cgbg]

There is a lot of interesting and controversial commentary here.

I hope everyone read this stunner in the middle of the email:

new US embassy position: a "diversity officer." Yes, that old missionary wing of our foreign policy establishment deemed we need an American official here to enlighten Austrians on the joys of ethnic and religious diversity.

What the F&^% is the administration doing here?

Don't we have enough lefties in the State Department already? We need to create new positions so we can hire more?

I have commented elsewhere on this administration's abject failure to fight affirmative action and other reverse racism throughout the government. I am stunned to hear that this sickness reaches into our embassies.

As an American I am embarassed.

I don't like to see us apologize to foreigners, but we really do owe the Austrians an apology on this one.

[SweetCaroline]

BTTT

[MEG33]

"And guys like you still think the answer is for American soldiers to prance around the world armed with incantations and bullets that will turn these medieval societies into thriving democratic economic miracles where the emigration urge will subside. Good luck!"

"Prance around the world"..?OUTRAGEOUS! That seems more like what he is doing..Our guys are fighting and dying fighting for our country.

AMERICA... HOME OF THE FREE BECAUSE OF THE BRAVE.

[Frank T]

Typical Euro-snob type attitude. From what I ascertain, he's American. But he speaks from the POV of a right wing European. (And in Europe, right wingers are socialist, too.)

The lesson he's trying to impart? What, that the immigrant problem over there is partly the Bush administration's fault? Obviously, they are far from getting a handle on this thing.

"So Tex, your 'Uncle Busy Body' school of foreign policy has still been very much in the ascendancy under your guru president. If he has his way, Vienna will go the way of Paris, London, Amsterdam etc."

Ha! Hope so! The people in those cities are pretty much all anti-American these days, and except for London, for most of the past couple hundred years.

The "Israelification" of Europe is something I look forward to. I sincerly hope that future administrations fully back Turkish entry into the European Union. I hope that millions of poor Turkomans then stream throughout the continent, and undermine it. Perhaps, then, they can all go to hell.

[Poser]

It is an interesting email, but lacks any solutions. His complaint is that the US has an engaged foreign policy, implying that we should be isolationists.

Secondly, he provides no options better than planting some democracies in the middle east. Should we just nuke them now?

Complaining about the current situation is very easy. Offering reasonable and attainable solutions is a completely different matter.

I suggest:

• Close borders to illegals
• Deport all current illegals
• End the practice of giving citizenship to children born of illegals
• Create a realistic guest worker program that only allows foreigners when there are no citizens willing and able to perform the job
• End all government services for illegals including welfare, schooling, drivers licenses, etc. Deport them instead
• Develop domestic sources of oil
• Build new refineries
• Build nuclear power plants creating a system with at least 70% of all electricity generated by nuclear power
• Continue to use a pro-active anti-terrorist policy (military, economic and diplomatic) with governments that pose a threat, including Iran, North Korea and Syria

I am neither a racist nor a Nazi. I do, however believe that citizens of every country deserve the first shot at any opportunity within their own land. Immigration should only be allowed when it benefits the existing citizens of the country.

So... If your country is lousy, change it! Need help? Ask and you might recieve (if it is in our best interest). Otherwise, we're sorry you were born in a rotten place and that your parents didn't do anything about it.

It's time for a little tough love with the rest of the world.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

RE: our "dim-wit" President

The European problems started at 12:01PM 20 January, 2001? I didn't know that.

Were the millions of Ottoman Turks from all over the Middle East and Africa lined up and just waiting for a U.S. dim-wit president? I'll do some googling. Fascinating.

Also, I thought modern Turkey was a constitutional republic and secular. I'll be. . . .

[Accygirl]

Yes... Such a nice pro-American guy, moaning and bitching about out dim-witted President while supporting rightwing radicals like LePen and Haider. Didn't Europe already try that solution already??

The issue with Europe and immigration is not that there's too much of it; it's just that the immigrants haven't been assimilated. Europe has always been more class-based, closed society where it's very difficult to move up in the world. In contrast, America has always been welcoming of immigrants and willing to give them chances to succeed, which makes it easier for the immigrant to become assmilated.

[motzman]

And guys like you still think the answer is for American soldiers to prance around the world...

Our soldiers never prance. They walk arm-in-arm with our allies, and stomp our enemies.

[Allan]

bump

[sam_paine]

Rock, yer friend writes well on what he knows, but falls apart on what he doesn't. We all do that. The trick is to avoid THINKING that we KNOW everything (i.e. 'dim-wit' Bush likely did better at Yale, flying jets, etc than your Vienna boy did, etc.).

countries that don’t rely on cheap 3rd World labor, like Japan, are much more apt to develop robots and other technology to do the routine work.

That's wishful thinking. He's been listening to Styx too much. Mr. Roboto doesn't supply all the components for Toshiba and Sony. Mr. Taiwan, Singapore and China do, too.

Robots at GM in Michigan do not affect illegal immigration in Texas one way or another. And robots cannot place concrete like Mexicans can!

[Clemenza]

Sounds like your idiot friend is part of the "Bush's fault" brigade, and has become a "right wing Euro-peon."

The left and right in Europe hate us. Which makes me so happy to see their cities and "ancient culture" go up in flames.

[Truthsayer20]

He is unfortunately correct in stating that the US has been feverously lobbying for Turkey's EU membership. The US goverment is simply not credible in the eyes of many European conservatives due to this fact.

[Radix]

Another partaker of the left wing MSM Kool-Aid concoction.

President Bush is not a dimwit. He is however a gentleman and quite civilized compared to the last several prior aspirers (or the former holder)of his office, or to many of his so called peers in soon to be Islamo-Europe.

[prairiebreeze]

Another disgruntled, Kerry-supporting PEST sufferer?

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

We learn more from the straight-talking email than from the PC MSM "news" stories.

[Alissa]

I thought Prince Charles thought Bush was too harsh on the Muslims? So now they think he's too soft. Geeze...