You raise thoughtful questions. I think European culture is fundamentally immobile. They could box up the contents of the Louvre and ship them to Sydney or New York, but it would not be the same thing. In addition, I’m not sure how many Americans want old Europe transplanted here. The Woody Allens of the world would love to wake up in the morning and step out the door into a faux Paris, but the folks in the heartland are quite happy surrounded by non-Europe, thank you very much.
The real question for us Americans is whether we’ll lend a hand if/when some Europeans with guts fight back (see earlier posts on Poles, Czechs, maybe Magyars and a few others). On the one hand we rail against western europe and it feels good to say “they deserve what they get.” I’m as guilty of that as the next conservative blogger. On the other hand, if the Polish nation rises up and fights back, I think lots of Americans would want to help.
I guess we won’t know until we get there (God forbid the dreadful predictions in this thread acually come true).
“if the Polish nation rises up and fights back, I think lots of Americans would want to help.”
I would hope we would rise up and help them, before it was too late. I’m not sure, though. I’m doing some research on the Muslim nations’ financial investments in our universities and based just on the most recent Department of Education report of funding over the past ten years or so, Muslim nations, (most notably Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Indonesia, Qatar, Bahrain, Malaysia) have spent about $400 million on gifts and contracts with U.S. publicly funded universities, including Harvard, Johns Hopkins, University of Arkansas, the University of California system, Tufts, Tulane, Duke, Rice Clemson. Texas A&M, Carnegie Mellon, Cornell, Georgetown, Virginia Commonwealth system and NYU either have or are setting up satellite campuses (campi?) in the United Arab Emirates or Qatar or Oman. The question will be whether the universities will obstruct the nation’s response against Muslim incursion.