Posted on 04/05/2006 12:17:50 PM PDT by finnigan2
've had a recurring experience in the last few months. I'll be reading some geopolitical tract like Sands Of Empire: Missionary Zeal, American Foreign Policy, and the Hazards Of Global Ambition by Robert W. Merry, and two-thirds of the way in I'll stumble across: "With the onset of the Iraq War and European opposition, many Americans embraced a severe anti-European attitude. 'To the list of polities destined to slip down the Eurinal of history,' wrote Mark Steyn in the Jewish World Review, 'we must add the European Union and France's Fifth Republic.' "
(Excerpt) Read more at macleans.ca ...
Thanks tsmith..(brushing footprint on off my backside)
It's tough being new around here sometimes. Hang in there...it's still a great place!
I say stick a gun in their hands and force them to fight for their future. We'll back them with airpower, kind of like the Iraqi Army. I don't know though...they may not want to be saved.
Thanks.....I simply wish and hope the West can be saved....its under assult from within and without.
All this talk about their low birth rates does not alter the fact that Europe is very crowded, in their view.
That is the problem with Europe.....will it be too late or will their hatred for us blind them.
Many died, too, in World War One.
I spent three years, complements of Uncle Sam, in England in the mid-80s. It used to amaze me how, in the square of most little towns and villages there would be a monument to the men of that town or village that died in The Great War. The names of the local fallen, as often as not, were inscribed somewhere on the monument. What was particularly stunning was the sheer number of those names, given the size of the town or village.
France, too, had amazing casualty rates in World War One. As did Germany.
I think that Ground forces will be needed....not enough young european males willing to fight and not enough even born.
but they are all elderly....the muslims are out reproducing at an astonishing rates thanks to welfare....wonder when they do away with the host?
and when you went to those towns did you notice the dearth of children ?
Read his profile. He's a troll.
He believes that he is to the right of the Republicans currently in power. That isn't exactly an uncommon position around here.
What is a troll?.....and I am sure I am not one :)
How do you get that from his profile?
I saw children, but I was dating the headmistress (effectively, a Principal) of a local public (a misnomer - actually this means private) school.
Let's not pity nor condemn Europe because we have an ever growing tar pit and growing civil unrest that unless rectified will swallow us whole.
Europe has gone through many upheavals throughout history and are more inclined to survive while we as nation have had only one major internal conflict (Civil War) but the make up of our nation is so much more diverse now and being pulled apart by a variety of foreign allegiances that when the sh*t hits the fan, we are liable to splinter in so many pieces that it will not be possible to reassemble one viable union spanning the continent.
We as a nation lack the maturity of the ages. We even lack the wisdom in electing true world class statesmen to lead our country.
Profile, FR homepage, whatever.
It says he is an AF veteran "heartsick" about how the Republicans are letting down the conservative movement.
Yeah, right.
Iwas there in the nineties thanks to the Air Force and it reminded me of one big nursing home
I did RAF Chicksands and RAF Alconbury.
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