[Pyro7480]

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

Let's hope that continues.

[2banana]

The Poles have saved Western Europe on more than one occasions...

[Pyro7480]

Catholic ping!

[Izzy Dunne]

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.

[Diamond]

...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,

[fortunecookie]

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...

[KarlInOhio]

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.

[Bigg Red]

Very interesting history lesson.

God bless all who fight these evil hordes!

And we got coffee out of it, too!

[elephantlips]

Also, beware of velvet bags.

[Clemenza]

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.

[fortunecookie]

You might enjoy this, if you haven't yet seen it September eleven remembered in Poland. The Poles are truly our friends

[Cacique]

ping

[pacelvi]

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.”

[Pyro7480]

Poland triumphant ping!

[lesser_satan]

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