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What Will Europe Really Do?
Real Clear Politics ^ | February 14, 2006 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 02/13/2006 9:50:03 PM PST by Daralundy

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1 posted on 02/13/2006 9:50:05 PM PST by Daralundy
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To: Daralundy

Excellent.


2 posted on 02/13/2006 9:52:13 PM PST by CWOJackson (Tancredo? Wasn't he the bounty hunter in Star Wars?)
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To: Daralundy

Europe is sick of lagging behind the USA. It's a pride thing. They'll attack islamo-fascism with unparalled zeal, just to show the world that they are NOT eunuchs.


3 posted on 02/13/2006 9:53:49 PM PST by Hypervigilant (Cogito, Ergo FReep.)
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To: CWOJackson
If the most liberal and tolerant states in Europe such as Holland and Denmark have the most problems with Islamic radicals, then what does that say about the continent as a whole? I think it says a whole lot more about the state of Islam as a whole than anything else.
4 posted on 02/13/2006 9:57:50 PM PST by RepublitarianRoger
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To: Hypervigilant

They will do whatever Solana wants them to do.


5 posted on 02/13/2006 9:57:56 PM PST by sageb1 (This is the Final Crusade. There are only 2 sides. Pick one.)
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To: Daralundy
I'm torn on this.  

I'm 38.  My first memory of international affairs is of the Iranian hostage crisis and ever since then I've seen islamofascist lunacy and violence all over the planet.  I'm absolutely sick of it and want to see it come to a head before I die.

But on the other hand, if it happens it's going to be so terrible...

6 posted on 02/13/2006 10:00:05 PM PST by Psycho_Bunny (Women were put on Earth to look hot. Men are here to be stupid about it.)
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To: Hypervigilant

It is too late for Europe. They(Europeans) luck unity.


7 posted on 02/13/2006 10:00:34 PM PST by QQQQ
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To: Daralundy

They will have to fight, within their own countries, and the time is near. What in the big wide world were they thinking when they brought in all those Muslims? Examples abound to show that this is not a good idea.


8 posted on 02/13/2006 10:00:54 PM PST by claudiustg (Delenda est Iran!)
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To: sageb1

He worries me. Some say he's the AC.

What say you?


9 posted on 02/13/2006 10:00:58 PM PST by Hypervigilant (Cogito, Ergo FReep.)
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To: Daralundy
at the liberal and innocuous Danes

This is always assumed -- that the editors at Jyllends-Posten are liberal and that their intentions were innocuous -- but frankly this hasn't been proven. Some accounts I've read state (based on CIA Fact Book information) that the paper has a right-wing or center-right-wing political orientation. It's unclear how these labels correlate with how the terms are generally used in the US. I really wish US columnists would focus on the specifics about the paper and its editors rather than use political terms that don't directly translate into American usage, eg, a member of the Liberal Party in England would not have that much in common with an American "liberal."

10 posted on 02/13/2006 10:02:25 PM PST by mumps
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They'll attack islamo-fascism with unparalled zeal, just to show the world that they are NOT eunuchs.

You misunderestimate the cowardice of Europe. And even if they took any action they wouldn't enjoy it.

11 posted on 02/13/2006 10:02:50 PM PST by Mike Darancette (Condimaniac)
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To: Daralundy
So now Europe is being thrust right into the middle of the so-called war against Islamic fascism.

This is beginning to look like a very familiar scenario we've seen before.

I hope we don't have to spill more American blood to pull socialist Europe's butt out of the fire one more time.

12 posted on 02/13/2006 10:02:57 PM PST by Noachian (To control the courts the people must first control their Congress.)
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Excellent.

Yeah, it was excellent!

Instead, by letting the Europeans take the lead with the Iranian negotiations, and keeping nearly silent about the cartoon hysteria, the United States essentially has told the Europeans, “Here is the sort of restrained sober and judicious global diplomacy that you so welcome.”

The silence of the US has been intriguing. It should be an interesting spring indeed.

13 posted on 02/13/2006 10:08:54 PM PST by Fruitbat
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The French get it but do it behind the scenes although Sarkozy is now stirring up the Establishment and taking action for the public to see.
14 posted on 02/13/2006 10:09:40 PM PST by 1066AD
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"Now the furor over the cartoons, coming on the heels of the bombings in Madrid and London, the French rioting, the murders in Holland, and the failed European negotiations with the Iranian theocracy have shaken Europe to its foundations."

I wish this were true. Europe's 'foundation' is the Christian faith, which they haven't come back to yet. When (and if) they do, Islam is finished in Europe, forever. Socialism and liberalism are no match for islam, but Christianity is.

15 posted on 02/13/2006 10:12:32 PM PST by TheCrusader ("The frenzy of the mohammedans has devastated the Churches of God" Pope Urban II ~ 1097A.D.)
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To: Daralundy

Great read!


16 posted on 02/13/2006 10:14:24 PM PST by nopardons
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To: Hypervigilant
They'll attack islamo-fascism with unparalled zeal, just to show the world that they are NOT eunuchs.

Sorry, it will never happen, until it is almost too late. Even then it may involve a nuclear exchange. Socialism is an evil cancer that destroys the will of any nation that is enveloped by it. The US is sliding towards Socialism and our future will be at risk if we don't have leaders who cherish Liberty and believe strongly in individual rights. The time will come when the West will be fully engaged in battle of survival with the satanic Islamofacists. The US still has the fighting spirit. Europe is almost totally secular and ripe to be overrun by the followers of a satanic pedophile.

17 posted on 02/13/2006 10:14:55 PM PST by liberty2004
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They'll attack islamo-fascism with unparalled zeal, just to show the world that they are NOT eunuchs.

But a true eunuch cannot help but be a eunuch (after all, where do you think the word EUnuch comes from). I get the feeling that their "unparalleled zeal" will be in the form of pronouncements, and possibly some bureaucratic nettling. They have only two options at present: paperwork or nuclear conflagration. It will take a truly epic disaster to rouse them I think.

OTOH, if a new "continentalist" movement comes to occupy the vacuum that is their souls anything could happen. I'm glad there is 3,000 miles of deep, cold water between us and them.

18 posted on 02/13/2006 10:15:12 PM PST by lafroste (gravity is not a force. See my profile to read my novel absolutely free (I know, beyond shameless))
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To: 1066AD
Syria just switched to euros, I wonder if Iran will next.
19 posted on 02/13/2006 10:17:27 PM PST by bubbleb
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To: TheCrusader
Socialism and liberalism are no match for islam, but Christianity is.

Wow. What a powerful thought.

20 posted on 02/13/2006 10:18:45 PM PST by lafroste (gravity is not a force. See my profile to read my novel absolutely free (I know, beyond shameless))
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