WHY HISTORY HAS NO END. (Excellent Article!!!!)

FrontPage Magazine ^ | Nov 2, 2003 | Victor Davis Hanson

[livius]

Good article bump.

[SamAdams76]

Interesting read. I am currently reading "Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" by William Shirer and I am in the section where Shirer talks about how the Nazi Party got their ideas that they are the "master race."

As the EU picks up steam and the countries within it jockey for position, I see some of those old hatreds starting to brew again, as this article sort of insinuates. The long-term goals of the EU is to be sort of a "United States of Europe" that would put them on equal footing with the USA politically as well as economically.

I just don't see it happening because many of these countries have historically been in conflict with each other since medieval times. All these people are set in their ways and their own traditions and so forth.

Besides, nobody seems to want to work over there. Who's going to get the work done while everybody is taking their 10 weeks of vacation in the Alps and the beaches of Monaco?

[EdReform]

BTTT

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[headsonpikes]

History never ends bump.

[faludeh_shirazi]

Bumper Time..

[Tares]

Besides, nobody seems to want to work over there. Who's going to get the work done while everybody is taking their 10 weeks of vacation in the Alps and the beaches of Monaco?

Colonialism - The European alternative to the Protestant work ethic.

I think this is one of the reasons France and Germany opposed the war against Saddam. A free Iraq is less likely to be exploited by state sponsored European corporations.

[sarasota]

Uh, government subsidies are not a European thing. We have plenty of them here in the States to "protect" our farmers.
Those lobbies are among the largest and obtain the biggest monies of any. The author's raisins may not be under that big umbrella but many other commodities are. Can't blame that one on Europe.

[xkaydet65]

Big Victor Davis Hanson BUMP!!!

I've said before that the works of Hanson and Col. Ralph Peters are some of the most important outcomes since 9/11. Intellectuals with feet grounded in both pragmatism and patriotism. Required reading!!!

[FierceDraka]

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[Young Werther]

I took a Honors Seminar entitled "19th Century Radical Thought" Mazzini and Marx were studied but so were the Oneida community in New York and the Amana Community in (Nebraska or Kansas).

These socialist communities were American attempts at communism. They are long gone but their products have survived!

You can microvave your frozen TV dinner in an Amana microwave and eat it with Oneida flatware. However, the American way of life insured these communities failed while their products survived!!!!

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

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[Rummyfan]

Bump for later.

[Eva]

I just read this on Frontpage and decided to a search. I missed it when it was posted here so I guess I'll have to give it a bump.

[expatguy]

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[beckett]

moral laxity masquerading as “sophistication”

The European mindset in a nutshell.

[Tolik]

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[yonif]

read later

[onedoug]

Thanks for posting.

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"The Hebrew Bible, in particular the Torah (The Five Books of Moses), has done more to civilize the world than any other book or idea in history. It is the Hebrew Bible that gave humanity such ideas as a universal, moral, loving God; ethical obligations to this God; the need for history to move forward to moral and spiritual redemption; the belief that history has meaning; and the notion that human freedom and social justice are the divinely desired states for all people." --Dennis Prager

[Utah Girl]

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