Posted on 01/06/2006 5:43:18 AM PST by Tolik
"Mark Steyn piece (It's the Demography, Stupid!)"
It's a great essay. If only I can get my "liberal" relatives and friends to read it and take it seriously.
A big part of the problem is that "liberals" are in denial about the idea that Islam is at war with Western civilization and that it's SERIOUS! Also, the "liberals" seem to not know, realize or believe that the Islamofascists want us DEAD and that they don't play by the rules! There are no rules of war for the Islamofascists.
It will be sad, though, to watch as the barbarians dynamite the Acropolis, the cathedrals at Cologne and Paris, the Louvre, etc, and erect their cheesey, garish mosques on top of the rubble.
If that event should come to pass, it would indicate that colonizing and empire does pay off, even for third world Muslims.
Why are we holding back?
That was some essay! Frighteningly clear, accurate analysis of Europeans rushing headlong over the cliff, like lemmings. Whew, V.D.H. pulls no punches.
V.D. Hanson isn't picking a fight with you, or the EU, he's mourning the fact that the EU doesn't seem to be able to read the tea leaves. It's actually a love letter.
And when we have a democratic party conniving with the Leftist, lying, despicable MSM to defeat the US at every turn, who secretly pray for another hideous Islamofascist attack with great loss of life in the US, it's beyond belief. We're at war, and they can't see beyond the end of their nose, pointed straight at the White House.
As if.
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As compared to the Mark Steyn article ("It's the Demography, stupid") , this is good but comes up a bit short in my view. Perhaps VDH is simply trying to be more subtle.
In my view, Europe is heading downhill and there isn't a whole lot that can be done in the short-run to turn it around. It's not so much the current politics (which can change) as the birthrates which have simply dropped off into the abyss. As pointed out in the Mark Steyn article, you can't turn 1 baby born in 2006 into 2 entrants into the workforce in 2026.
Europe is committing the demographic equivalent of mass suicide.
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