From the hammer of Charles Martel to the sword of Jan Sobieski, Christianity owed its safety in Europe to the fact it...could and would fight as well as the Mohammedan aggressorLet's hope that continues.
1 posted on
09/11/2007 11:31:52 AM PDT by
Pyro7480
To: Pyro7480
The Poles have saved Western Europe on more than one occasions...
2 posted on
09/11/2007 11:33:17 AM PDT by
2banana
(My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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3 posted on
09/11/2007 11:33:47 AM PDT by
Pyro7480
("Jesu, Jesu, Jesu, esto mihi Jesus" -St. Ralph Sherwin's last words at Tyburn)
To: Pyro7480
The first step in fighting as well as your enemy is BELIEVING you can fight as well as your enemy.
I don't doubt our soldiers' abilities in that regard, but as a nation; we don't have it.
4 posted on
09/11/2007 11:36:27 AM PDT by
Izzy Dunne
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To: Pyro7480
...there were found bags of beans - coffee beans - revealing how the Turks could fight day and night. Shortly after was opened the first Vienna coffeehouse and coffee subsequently spread across Europe.I didn't know Starkbuck's was founded in 1683.
Cordially,
6 posted on
09/11/2007 11:40:12 AM PDT by
Diamond
To: Pyro7480
Agreed. Wow! Thanks for posting. Just goes to show that in recent history, and this one by our own president, Teddy Roosevelt, we’ve had US leaders remarking about the fight against “the Mohammedan aggressor”, something our lefties would like us to forget. I think I’ll get another cup of coffee...
7 posted on
09/11/2007 11:42:57 AM PDT by
fortunecookie
(Finally catching up with posting...)
To: Pyro7480
President Theodore Roosevelt wrote in his 1916 book, "Fear God and Take Your Own Part": "From the hammer of Charles Martel to the sword of Jan Sobieski, Christianity owed its safety in Europe to the fact it...could and would fight as well as the Mohammedan aggressor." I like that. It goes will with the tagline I've had for the past couple of months.
8 posted on
09/11/2007 11:44:55 AM PDT by
KarlInOhio
(May the heirs of Charles Martel and Jan Sobieski rise up again to defend Europe.)
To: Pyro7480
Very interesting history lesson.
God bless all who fight these evil hordes!
And we got coffee out of it, too!
10 posted on
09/11/2007 11:48:35 AM PDT by
Bigg Red
(Duncan Hunter in 2008!)
To: Pyro7480
Also, beware of velvet bags.
To: Pyro7480
Unfortunately, the Poles wound up using the coffee beans sparingly, essentially drinking it 1/4 coffee, the other 3/4 milk, in effect inventing Cafe Au Lait. This tradition continues on my father’s side of the family.
13 posted on
09/11/2007 11:52:26 AM PDT by
Clemenza
(Rudy Giuliani, like Pesto and Seattle, belongs in the scrap heap of '90s Culture)
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14 posted on
09/11/2007 11:56:55 AM PDT by
fortunecookie
(Finally catching up with posting...)
To: Clemenza
15 posted on
09/11/2007 12:06:41 PM PDT by
Cacique
(quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat ( Islamia Delenda Est ))
To: Pyro7480
Theodore Roosevelt wrote
The Greeks who triumphed at Marathon and Salamis did a work without which the world would have been deprived of the social value of Plato and Aristotle, of Aeschylus, Herodotus, and Thucydides. The civilization of Europe, America, and Australia exists today at all only because of the victories of civilized man over the enemies of civilization, because the victories stretching through the centuries from the days of Miltiades and Themistocles to those of Charles Martel in the eighth century and those of John Sobieski in the seventeenth century.
During the thousand years that included the careers of the Frankish soldier and the Polish king, the Christians of Asia and Africa proved unable to wage successful war with the Moslem conquerors; and in consequence Christianity practically vanished from the two continents; and today nobody can find in them any “social values” whatever, in the sense in which we use the words, so far as the sphere of Mohammedan influence. There are such “social values” today in Europe, America, and Australia only because during those thousand years the Christians of Europe possessed the warlike power to do what the Christians of Asia and Africa had failed to do - that is, to beat back the Moslem invader.
16 posted on
09/11/2007 12:18:47 PM PDT by
pacelvi
(In general, Democrats are the only real reason to vote for Republicans. - Thomas Sowell)
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18 posted on
09/11/2007 12:24:49 PM PDT by
Pyro7480
("Jesu, Jesu, Jesu, esto mihi Jesus" -St. Ralph Sherwin's last words at Tyburn)
To: Pyro7480
20 posted on
09/11/2007 12:28:04 PM PDT by
lesser_satan
(FRED THOMPSON '08)
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