[dirtboy]

the EU must not develop into a military superpower but must become a great power that will not take up arms at any occasion in order to defend its own interests.”

Great. Let them achieve their utopian goal, and then I can go and take over all of Europe with a paintball gun.

King Dirtboy has a nice ring to it.

[VadeRetro]

... Prime Minister Paavo Lipponen [...] said in London last year that "the EU must not develop into a military superpower."

No worries, Mate!

[jim macomber]

"...you can’t “mend bridges” when the opposite bank is sinking into the river."

Steyn strikes again. Its not just what he says but the way he says it - brilliantly.

[You Dirty Rats]

Jacques Chiraq as George Clooney -- priceless.

This is an interesting column and not what I expected to read from Steyn on the Spanish Election (perhaps he'll address that at greater length in another column), but this is the perfect answer to the Euroweenies. They're future is pretty poor compared to ours.

[blanknoone]

Eurabia...classic

[SevenDaysInMay]

Old Europe's opiate of the masses is post-commie EUtopianism.

Oily bahksheesh has purchased willful ignorance in France among other once proud democratic nations, freed by Americans' blood and treasure, twice. America cannot save nations willing to commit cultural suicide under the threats of islam's mass murders.

Islam is out to recapture its losses pursuant to dar al islam, its dogma of once conquored by islam, always conquored by islam.

Eurabia is forming with the sleepers at the thousands of new mosques funded by the House of Saud, busy wahhabbees they.

The now disarmed EUropeans can only watch as their entire EUtopian culture collapses under heavily armed islamists' Blitzkrieg.

[My2Cents]

Man, this guy's brilliant!

I found this comment interesting: "you can’t “mend bridges” when the opposite bank is sinking into the river.?"

I've been thinking about John Kerry's criticism of Bush as being "a divider." This is an odd charge, first, considering that Bush has bent over backwards with his "new tone" commitment and has refused to shoot back at all of the cheap shots he's had to endure the past three years, and secondly, because the charge of "divider" is in and of itself divisive.

Steyn's comment could be applied to the the phony "bipartisanship" we see in Washington these days. One may say to Pres. Bush, the "new tone" and all, how can you build a bridge to the other side of the aisle when it is sinking into the mud that it likes to throw.

[45Auto]

The decline of Finland over the last century is a sad thing to consider. At the start of the 20th century, the Finns were under the control of Russia - just another part of its crumbling imperial empire. The unrest in Russia in 1913 and WWI in 1915 allowed the Finns to assert their nationalism through a major resistance movement that ultimately led to independence for Finland. It took God, guns and guts for this to occur.

The Finns set up their own arms and ammunition factories to produce the ordnance necessary to drive out the Russian army. These industries still exist today: Nammo Lapua and Vihtavuori powder works along with Sako rifles. The Vihtavuori rifle powder series has one of the most linear burning rates of any series made in the world. So much so, that fine tuning of rifle loads in order to achieve very accurate results is made quite a bit easier than that of any other manufacturers' powder series.

[MoralSense]

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[Wolfstar]

Or, to be more accurate, what will it take for the Yanks to nobble themselves?

Elect John Kerry.

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[P8riot]

FReekin' excellent read

[Seruzawa]

and in the broader sense Catholic Latin America is more culturally compatible with the US than post-Christian Europe is.

This little line really intrigued me. Setting aside the usual Freeper knee jerk "foreign culture" reaction I believe this concept to be quite correct. Latin America is strongly Catholic. I'd hire immigrant workers to run a MacDoanlds in a heartbeat over the spoiled and lazy white teenagers I see wandering around looking for their next joint. It's difficult to be too serious about the foreign culture aspect when I'm sitting eating a burrito and setting up my wallpaper of Sofia Vergara.

Our problems with SA have more to do with the incredible corruption and the vicious aspects of Napoleonic Law rather than any innate deep conflicts between individual Americans and SA's.

Interestingly, today I heard some stats on the poverty rate here in Utah. Currently the govt sets it at 30%, mostly rural. However the poverty rate amongst Hispanics is about 1/3 of that.

Be that as it may, we are going to need strong trading partners. Steyn says very eloquently what I've been saying for years: Europe's fascination with cradle to grave freebies is going to ruin it.

The correct historical term for any group of pacifists is slaves.

[proud American in Canada]

bttt. Thanks for posting.

[KantianBurke]

read for later

[Snuffington]

I remember reading this a year ago. Like Steyn suggests, it holds up pretty darn well one year later.

[bobjam]

Trade and economic agreements with Latin America will probably be much more beneficial to us and them than any deal with Europe. The United States can survive without the EU, the European Union will struggle at best if the US tells them to kiss off.

The problem with Europe (and Canada) is that all their smart people moved here. And that includes the descendants of Charles Martel.

[knews_hound]

No one Pinged Pokey to this?

You guys are slippin.


Cheers,

knews hound

[America's Resolve]

Worst case scenario: Sharia, circa 2070

This guy's so danged eloquent!

All of Eurabia's future in one short sentence.