[tictoc]

Only a week ago I saw a French poster on another discussion board reminisce -- seriously! -- about the good old days when the court of Charlemagne (today's France and Germany) maintained cordial relations with the caliph Haroun al-Rashid in Baghdad, exchanging emissaries bearing gifts.

Many French are so deluded, it isn't funny. In their minds, the counterweight to U.S. power will be French brains, German engineering, Arab manpower, and Gulf oil money.

To them, this notion is entirely sane.

[PuNcH]

Many French are so deluded, it isn't funny. In their minds, the counterweight to U.S. power will be French brains, German engineering, Arab manpower, and Gulf oil money. To them, this notion is entirely sane.

The same problems europe is having, America is having to a lesser degree. Americans right here at FR constantly use the same reasoning as above to defend it all. American brains and engineering can supposedly excuse the sellout of our manufacturing. Well they've retreated from engineering and now simply extol the virtues of "innovation", brains.

"Political elites feel that the people have no right to obstruct the realization of the European dream."

And in America the elites call it globalism, new world order, etc., but we cant even defend our own borders anymore.