Posted on 08/17/2006 11:19:22 AM PDT by RKV
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Yep, the USA has been the best thing to happen to the world for over two hundred years...think that's why the Europeans love to bash us so much...oh well...they can get use to burqas and sharia law while making fun of us in the future.
And not just Europe - that's the best capsule description of the San Francisco Bay Area limousine liberal mentality I've ever seen.
I am so glad that I didn't buy into all that "population bomb" Paul Ehrlich crap from the '60's and '70's and popped out 9 babies while all my liberal relatives looked on in horror.
this guy still amazes me...his insight, and ability to convey it is without peer.
LOL!
I didn't have nine, for a variety of reasons beyond my control, but I did make it to three - and I one time had a woman my own age (late 20s at that time) come up to me while I was with my kids in a park in San Francisco and start berating me for "cluttering up the world" with children. When I lived on the West Coast, I would get comments like that all the time. I bet you got them, too; heck, the woman would have had an apoplectic fit and died if she'd seen you with your 9!
I remember seeing this on FR. It makes we wish I could adopt a Japanese grandmother to come here and listen to my kids talk! (The language barrier would probably be helpful - like my Dad can turn his hearing aids off when he's here :-).
Tks a great post.
he is just so damn good and so damn right.
Mark Steyn and Thomas Sowell. Someone suggested the other day that Thomas Sowell's brain should be put in a robot body, so he could keep writing for another 100 years. Ditto for Steyn - but we could try it on Dr. Sowell first, since he's getting pretty old!
Ping!
Steyn nails it. Everyone should read this article.
I would respectfully suggest that you missed his point. Islam - Radical or Otherwise - is no more the basic problem than the barbarians were for the Roman Empire. It is not that they are strong; the West is weak.
It is at least that. It is also a form of virtue perfected by the medieval self-flagellants but without the concomitant courage to stripe one's own back. Instead it is one's neighbors who will be required to do so, and as ever where no pain is felt by the principals, no amount of flagellation will ever be enough. Thus the environmental policy of someone whose ability to hike over virgin wilderness is to be offset by everyone else living in government barracks and toiling on the communal farms. Nice work if you can get it.
But as Steyn points out, the West was dying culturally long before the babies stopped coming. Rap and McDonald's have conquered largely by filling a void just as the Islamic armies did in the 7th century of fond Arab nostalgia and aspiration. It's easy to conquer where there's nothing left to fight.
We need more people to makes this much sense. Reasoning and common sense are in short supply at most media outlets.
Thank God for FR and bless all fellow Freepers!
ummm, yeah...that's why I said "surrendered"? I probably was vague though, my commentary wasn't specifically on this piece - re Steyn's work in general.
I love Steyn the best, but I am getting a little tired of the demographic-catastrophe approach to the future. The true action is in a sphere other than the physical. When are we going to get serious about the war of ideas?
war of ideas?
Could you elaborate please?
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Great Steyn if a bit gloomy.
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