[Tolik]

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Links: FR Index of his articles:  http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=victordavishanson 
His website: http://victorhanson.com/     NRO archive: http://www.nationalreview.com/hanson/hanson-archive.asp

[hershey]

It's hard to admit you've been living in a fool's paradise, especially when blaming the US for everything unpleasant has worked for so long.

[Old Grumpy]

"Few over here realize that they have finally lost American good will . . . "

Yep. I, for one, have had it with a lot of Europeans. Perhaps it is time for this country to concentrate on taking care of US, and let them take care of their own problems.

[T Minus Four]

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[randita]

Excellent read. Hanson nails it.

[Convert from ECUSA]

Right on the money!

[gridlock]

Far more prolific Arabic and Turkish immigrants are welcome to collect the garbage and clean, but not properly intermarry, integrate or assimilate. Still, Europeans do not thereby feel illiberal. After all, they broadcast to the world that they are progressives on humanitarian issues of global poverty, world courts and the environment.

The Codfish lays a thousand eggs,
The humble Hen, but one.
The Codfish doesn't cackle around,
To tell you what she's done.
We dreadfully scorn the Codfish,
While the humble Hen we prize.
All of which goes to show
It pays to advertise.

-- Ogden Nash

[Noachian]

Because more than a half-million Americans have died in two European wars of the past century, we must hope that this government-mandated heaven works.

If it doesn't work how many more American lives will be lost on European soil after they beg us for help again?

[Gritty]

...the continent's citizens feel that they are now exempt from the harsh reality facing billions of mere mortals in America, China, India and Russia.

They will soon be rousing from their sweet dreams into a wide-awake nightmare.

[oldbrowser]

The utopian dream of a 35-hour work week, lifelong job tenure and cradle-to-grave benefits falls victim to a bothersome reality: More competitive Americans, Indians and Chinese have no such pretensions. While Europe gets its beauty rest, others work far harder and longer to produce cheaper things for an ever more price-conscious global consumer.

It is time to stop propping up some of these dysfunctional countries and let nature take it's course of destruction and renewal. We should begin to shift our allegiance to countries that share our vision.

[NZerFromHK]

the new childless European citizen is otherwise too engaged in travel, fine food, global moralizing and intellectual pursuit.

I think VDH mentions something most of us forget. In contrast to most here, I don't see the attitudes of Europeans as living in despair, but rather, complacent and self-indulgent. Just read some of the Eurocrat posteurs on this site (Yes they do exist here, but they rarely respond to VDH's threads) and you will see this side.

[WestVirginiaRebel]

In the 21st century, Europe is fast on the way to becoming what it was in the early Middle Ages-a collection of petty nation-states half-run by Muslims while the real power is in the East.