Europe risks losing its best ally

National Post ^ | May 30 2002 | Conrad Black

[infowarrior]

Re: Your #28...

While the "Brownshirts" or SturmAbteilung of the late and largely unlamented Schikelgruber were indeed illiterate "troglodytes", it cannot be forgotten that they were purged from the Nazi heirarchy very early on, their place being taken by the well-educated, urbane SchutzStaffel...

the infowarrior

[tictoc]

While the "Brownshirts" or SturmAbteilung of the late and largely unlamented Schickelgruber were indeed illiterate "troglodytes", it cannot be forgotten that they were purged from the Nazi hierarchy very early on, their place being taken by the well-educated, urbane SchutzStaffel...

The SS were better educated, true. However, Germans today are not the Nazis of old and there will be no "Fourth Reich". Instead, think Berkeley, Ithaca, San Fran State, and picture the pernicious rot of political correctness, welfare mentality, "white guilt", the cult of the victim, and a general surrender mentality towards Islamic terrorism -- not confined to bastions of leftism as in the U.S., but covering nearly the entire country.

This, of course, is also the general European malaise. Added to this is the unique German ingredient of long-festering resentment over the lasting effects of the Holocaust on the national psyche, specifically its inhibition of the normal human desire to feel patriotic and proud.

[infowarrior]

My point was not that there well may be a "Fourth Reich" in Germany, which I am inclined to doubt myself, but that virulent antisemitism is not solely a province of the uneducated. You may rest assured that I am casting my eyes in many directions, including the ones you've mentioned, and not liking what I'm seeing...

the infowarrior