[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

read later...

[headsonpikes]

History never ends bump.

[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]

Bump for later

[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]

Bump.

[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]

bump

[beckett]

moral laxity masquerading as “sophistication”

The European mindset in a nutshell.

[yonif]

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[Utah Girl]

History ping for you

[Revolting cat!]

A good description of the current picture but short on perspective and the vision thing which is something that Fukuyama had. Also, when the author speculates what Fukuyama might have said (or "countered" as he puts it) after 9/11, he shows that he hasn't done his homework, because Fukuyama indeed updated his End of History essay following 9/11, in an article in the Wall Street Journal. (He defended and expanded on his previous thesis as hanson correctly guesses.)

Other than that this article is full of the parochial American prejudices and hatreds for the Europeans and their welfare state preferences, which work just fine for them and certainly not much worse than our own welfare state preferences, which we like to sweep under a rug and never discuss, because that would be, you know, "racism".

In the end, Fukuyama may be wrong, but Hanson does little to convince this cat!

[ChadGore]

Great post ! Wow, what a find !

[redhead]

bumping for later...

[Mr. Mojo]

But in truth, the European opposition to the U.S. over Iraq and the fuss the European nations made about international organizations and diplomacy had more to do with realpolitik—the desire of those nations to answer American influence and champion their own power—than they did with any belief in the obsolescence of national identity or military force. How else could the once-great nations of Europe counter American influence, given the present comparative weakness of their arms and the rigidities of their economies, than by shackling the “hyper-power” with the mandates of the “world community”?

Well said, and spot on.