Posted on 12/08/2005 7:05:29 AM PST by SJackson
Denmark.
How so?
HT, I've been following these people(?) for awhile now.
You might want to pick up a copy of the Nov./Dec. issue of foreign affairs, there's a good article about them in it.
Denmark is the home of 180,000 Muslims who constitute approximately 3 percent of its 5.4 million citizens. Most of these Muslims, including the second generation, adhere to the creed propagated by HT, and refuse to assimilate into the Danish society.
Denmark: it could happen, I mean anything is possible, but at some point HT and and Islamists will overplay there hand. They always do.
Now there we agree!
But the problem is, they have already overplayed their hand in any country in which they are present. And the reaction of most European and American leftists is to portray the threat as a reaction to American arrogance and power.
These anti-America americans are so bent on destroying this great country, they are willing to cut their own throats.
Live with TAE: Robert Kaplan (Do yourself a favor)
The American Enterprise ^ | January/February 2006 | Robert Kaplan
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1538833/posts
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TAE: Most European democracies have completely lost their fighting spirit, and are thus left with unimpressive military forces. Why is the U.S. a comparative exception today among modern Western nations in the survival of a righteous martial spirit among its population?
Kaplan: I think Australia still has it, and Japan is regaining it. People are a little uncomfortable with that, given Japan’s military history, but their reconstituted spirit is understandable given their terrific fear of a reunited greater Korea. And even Singapore has a very feisty, strong military. So we’re not the only ones.
But in all these cases, I think it’s because there is a sense of specific nationhood, anchored to a specific geography, which gives it a moral accountability. Once you’re de-linked from geography and you only think in terms of universal values, you’re no longer motivated. That’s why Europe has a specific problem. The old nation exists less and less in Europe.
TAE: Much of the American elite has also lost its “martial spirit.” How has the American elite changed over the years, and why do you think they have?
Kaplan: In the early 1960s, I remember hearing my truck-driving father talk about the “Establishment”—people like Averil Harriman, John McCloy, Charles Bolin, George Tannin. Even though these people were very liberal, they saw themselves as Americans. Today’s similar figures wouldn’t see themselves in the same light, because they so often socialize and cross paths with people from other countries.
So the American elite exists less and less as an institution, while the global elite exists more and more. Today’s media elites, for example, care more about the thoughts and writings of their “esteemed” colleagues in Britain or France than their counterparts at the Chicago Tribune or the Omaha World Herald. That was not the case when I was growing up.
TAE:Do you think part of the problem that elites have with George Bush is the fact that he comes across as so American?
Kaplan: Definitely. The reality is that President Bush comes across as a kind of throwback, an archetypal figure from an earlier America. So no matter what he says, post-national elites in Washington and New York are going to feel culturally alienated by him. That’s something he just has to deal with.
Global jihad bump
Thanks for the link. I enjoy Kaplan's writing. Check out "Imperial Grunts," a tribute to the great work being done around the world by our Special Forces.
Check out "Imperial Grunts,"
I've been pushing it for a while now. Great read!
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