[royalcello]

I don't condone all the wars waged by various kings. However, as Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn explains in "Monarchy and War", the French Revolution and the ideologies proceeding from it made warfare much worse.

We'll see how "peaceful" democratic Europe remains when the Muslim population becomes large enough that Islamic states are a real possibility. I think that eventually Europeans are going to wake up and realize that multiculturalism hasn't worked, but by then it will be too late to settle the issue peacefully.

The kings of old may have had many faults, but at least they never would have allowed their societies to be gradually taken over by Muslim and other immigrants from the Third World, or sold out their nations' independence to the sovereignty-destroying European Union.

[sinkspur]

The kings of old may have had many faults, but at least they never would have allowed their societies to be gradually taken over by Muslim and other immigrants from the Third World,

Yep. Can't allow the darkies to pollute the lily-white world of the Euro-Americans.

I suspect an American monarch would still be mandating colored drinking fountains.

I don't trust unencumbered authority, especially when those who possess it claim that they are "enlightened by God."