[bajabaja]

I second MS’s sentiments, being the son of refugees from Europe’s most recent totalitarian phases; but Europe has a tendency to project many of its ills onto the US, its benefactor. (Those ills include festering/erupting Islamofascism and an undercurrent of anti-semitism.) There are hopeful signs too (e.g., Sarkozy) but the overall trend is not the direction we’d like to see.

[goldstategop]

Post modern Europe is a museum piece. There's storied history behind it but no real passion and no real life. The continent is like an animatronic display. In contrast, American history is always being made anew, even as it does revere its origins. Its a very striking difference.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus