Posted on 03/26/2004 10:48:31 AM PST by mrustow
The vicious circle of weakness dominating European thought is countered by the virtuous circle of strength that George W. Bush has expressed.
| I am not a European. Jessep: You want answers?! Kaffee: I want the truth! Jessep: You can't handle the truth! Son, we live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who's gonna do it? You? [To Kaffee's co-counsel.] You, Lieutenant Weinberg? I have a greater responsibility than you can possibly fathom. You weep for Santiago, and you curse the Marines. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know -- that Santiago's death, while tragic, probably saved lives; and my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives. You don't want the truth because deep down in places you don't talk about at parties, you want me on that wall -- you need me on that wall. The exchange could just as well have been between Europe and America over the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. (Unfortunately, politically correct writer Aaron Sorkin and director Rob Reiner presented Nicholson as the heavy, and Cruise as the hero, but it is a tribute to Sorkin's writing skills, that his speech has become a credo for many members of the LAPD and the American military.) The problem with most of Western Europe, is that it wants to be safe, but still won't guard itself, yet no longer wants America on "that wall." That means that Western Europe will be defeated by Islamism. New York-based freelancer Nicholas Stix has written for Toogood Reports, Middle American News, the New York Post, Daily News, American Enterprise, Insight, Chronicles, Newsday and many other publications. His recent work is collected at The Critical Critic.
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Another interesting read, wetter tell your neighbors!
Nah. The world changed some time ago when the Western Civilization birth rate dropped below replacement. Europe is just the canary. Demographics rule.
The past forty yers, in America and Erupe, are a cautionary tale, as to how centuries of work building institutions, can be swept away in practically the blink of an eye.
There is more than one way to invade a country. It's already well under way.
Oh, we should run away and leave chaos behind, that will solve the problem, I don't think so. You know we aren't fighting a war on Islam. If Al Jazeera and their favorite muslim Bin Laden continue to poison the well it really doesn't matter. What does matter is if the Iraqis develope a modern society they will be the "poster children" that FREEDOM can bring. If Iraq is left to slip into anarchy it will become the new haven for the terrorists. Beyond that it will be a major defeat for the coalition. I'm sure Osama would love that one.
Curiously, in non-white majority countries, hatred of whites is VERY prevalent.
I personally did a statistical study on this in the mid-1960s, when the explosion was really getting started, and the correlation is very striking.
William Flax
1. We have no Constitutional function to try to remake other societies.
2. The Government does not determine the character of a people, nor their culture.
3. Freedom dependent upon a foreign occupation is a mockery. Imagine what would have been the reaction, if after the French Navy played a key role at Yorktown, they had sent in a French Army to protect the fledgling States.
4. While we can create an illusion of prosperity by spending American tax dollars and credit in Iraq, that is hardly the way for a people to really progress. But there is a fatal flaw in the notion that Iraq is suddenly going to be a model. With a sea of oil, she can certainly prosper, as do the Saudis and Kuwaitis; and she does not need our physical presence to do that.
5. But with all her oil, and all of our extravagance, no amount of manipulation is going to turn her into the equivalent of a European nation. Those who remember from history, the glorious ancient and medieval societies in Mesopotamia, need to remember what Tamerlane and other Mongols did to the leadership groups in the area, 600 years ago. The genetic damage has not been undone.
Why do you think that Saddaam had to hire so many foreign technicians for his weapons programs? Why with all his wealth, was he unable to achieve the sort of technological break-throughs that a desperately poor North Korea--with a vastly higher average I.Q. achieved. I am not trying to be unkind, just facing the realities of the situation.
The danger of a continued American presence will always be in that we, as the outsiders, will achieve the blame for everything that goes wrong; as well as the hatred of those who will see our meddling as an attack on their way of life and value system. I suspect that Bin Laden actually loves the fact that we seem to be staying.
William Flax Return Of The Gods Web Site
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