Posted on 03/02/2007 12:47:37 PM PST by Parmenio
And just prior to bulldozing it into the river.
To make space for a gun shop!
;-)
I agree with everything except wanting to stay with the UN.
Europe needs a lesson that will make them stand up for something again, such as European culture. It's been too long.
"We'll protect innocent people wherever possible, because that's what we do."
In the EU, I don't see many innocents anymore, I see collaborators if not outright traitors.
The majority of Americans are not sophisticated enough to understand let alone see, the impotence of the UN. They are suckers too easily manipulated emotionally to consider not throwing our money in black holes like African AIDS concerns or strengthening Malaki's Palestinian Authority.
We are too brainwashed by green-communists to allow us to develop our own oil/coal resources. The major corporations will not stop selling our capital overseas and relocating all Software Engineering, manufacturing and fabrication to places like China and India.
Finally if by some miracle we woke up and were willing to do what it takes we'd be convinced by the MSM that we are morally wrong for protecting ourselves and becoming more self reliant.
People may say they want to isolate but they won't do what is necessary.
"Headed for?" I hate to break the news but any country which spends something over 60% of its budget on entitlements (think: Medicare, Medicaid, and welfare (both social AND corporate) is already socialist, even if not as much as others....and even if its people won't admit it. To not confess that America is, today, a socialist country, is "not just a river in Egypt...."
Not really. Think about all the stupid people who believe in global warming and carbon credits.
And the latest is overweight credits. What next?
What about Australia?
"There is NOTHING centrist about her"
Maybe the author meant "center-left" in the sense that she is self-centered first and that socialism comes in second.
OMG, you are absolutely right! Thank you for reminding me!
Thanks for posting this, Ivan. Hope this doesn't sound like a broken record, but a Democrat president following Bush could be disastrous for Europe, perhaps the world.
The Democrats have painted themselves into a corner on the use of military force. When the next flareup occurs, too many conservatives will remember how most of Europe abandoned us in Iraq, let alone actively thwarted our mission. I can see an American response, to wit: hey guys, we've carried the load for the last 60-70 years, and we don't have the cash with all these Baby Boomers retiring.
If Iraq wasn't important enough, I'll be hard pressed to come up with a bigger conflict that will unite America.
America is aging, and those that remembered the Great Depression, WW2, Korea, and the Cold War, are turning over the levers of power to those whose memories are bereft of those hazardous times.
When weeks of Congressional energy are spent on "nonbinding resolutions", the rest of the world needs to ask itself, "who's going to fight the bad guys?". Cagey wolves like China and Russia are licking their chops as they survey the menu for their next feast.
al Qaeda's probably trying to make a quick strike before Anna Nicole is planted in Bermuda. They have to figure that 80% of America is paying attention to that and American Idol.
As for myself, I've got March Madness to deal with (go Zags!). ;^)
I think I'll send Mr. Seltzer a little note/email. Thanks again for your thread!
Stupid Credits?
What happened to the America right wing.?.
The guys that want to circumcize the Federal government by at LEAST half..
Where did they go?..
Pesonally I am sick of the world. The anti-US garbage has been going on for decades and its now a full blown mental illness. We can take care of ourselves. Screw'em.
Let them try to pay for all the endless museums, parks, and cradle to the grave welfare and pensions without the US military providing all its military protection.
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Very good article and an entirely possible future. Which is bad news for us Europeans but wholly deserved. It's remarkable that only two generations have passed and we have totally forgotten what WW2 did to Europe and how much we have the US to thank for. The EUs best hope is the start building up our defenses, and fast, and do everything possible to make sure Turkey don't slip down into muslim fundamentalism.
Me, I'd feel awful to abandon and desert my native country, but I think that I might soon have to throw myself on the mercy of the US and hope you will let me in to your great country.
He should have also mentioned what the world would be like if the US didn't expend tremendous amounts of Carbon Dioxide and 'Green House Gases' to help stabilize the price of the fuel every economy on the planet runs on. It is a more serious situation on the other side of the globe in Asia where Australia, Taiwan, Japan and other Asian allies know what life would be like without the US defense shield. The next President should give Europe a taste of life without the US by abandoning the Balkans along with Iraq. Then Europe's Southern border will once again become a hot zone for Muslim and European conflict.
One of these days I'm gonna have to google up carbon footprint just to see what the hell that is.
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