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"But that is a lesson the Europeans - despite their experience with Nazism, fascism, and communism - refuse to learn. Which is why the gulf between us is only going to widen." -- article

Why the alienation after America bailed out Europe twice in world wars? You would think that our nation with its historical foundations rooted in the tenets of individual liberties, freedoms and rights would be cheered around the world. But we are not. We are scorned; indeed hated and today, Europe is forced to deal with American hypocritical international interventionalist foreign policy. America's shallow embrace for "peace" around the world is nothing more than a cloak to spread an Empire.

But that is a lesson the Europeans - despite their experience with Nazism, fascism, and communism - refuse to learn.

The reason they cannot learn the lesson is precisely the fact that all three --- Nazism, fascism, and communism --- have been prodiced in Europe. The clouded brain that created those remains clouded.

I read somewhere that nations go thru cycles something like this: first slavery, then spirtual revival, then rebellion, then freedow, then prosperity, then conplaycency (sp?), then faithlessness, then debauchery, finally back to slavery.

Looks like Europe is ready for slavery (or serfdom) again.

Does anyone know correct stages listed above? I am recounting it from memory.

The truth is, Europe has lost its will to fight. The bloodshed of two world wars understandably left painful emotional scars and gave rise to a conviction - not so understandable - that war is fundamentally illegitimate and unjust.

Nah, it's the decline of Christianity, the inability of differentiate right and wrong, that is behind this: if you cannot see the difference between right and wrong, then there is no wrong, and then there is nothing to fight against.

We are only slightly behind the same wave of moral relativism.

This is very interesting. When I was an undergraduate at Illinois Wesleyan University from 1991-1995, there was a columnist named Jeff Jacoby that occasionally submitted articles to our campus newspaper. (I was a regular columnist.)

Wonder if this is the same guy?

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But that is a lesson the Europeans - despite their experience with Nazism, fascism, and communism - refuse to learn. Which is why ~~the gulf between us is only going to widen~~ we can neither trust them nor depend on them

Me thinks that Europe will someday again achieve the will to fight amongst itself; the timing of which will be when the sheer weight of social welfare state implodes upon society and the pack of dogs (EU) turns on itself to gain for the strong. The poltical ploys of France and Germany now witness just such a civilized coup of corruption at the expense of lesser economic EU rivals. A time will come when the merger of "benfits" within individual EU states at the juncture of Brussels overloads the previously managed welfare states based on a uniforminity. The red tape alone is strangeling these nations, but the low birth rates have resulted in no new workers in the work force (a policy which I beleive EU nations embraced to cut down on medical benefits for children as well as the costs of education). Bringing in low income immigrants to work from the middle east has only further damaged society as it become multi-polar. Europe will fight itself for selfish self interests - the protests by Unions in France this past week are evidence of the coming implosion.