Brillant analysis by VDH..spot on...what we may also see happening int he near future is a mass exodus by millions of young people..from all European countries....as the onerous cost of the entitlements implodes economies..and who will benefit from this??..Canada, Australia, and the US..
VDH writes: Either your economy will reform, your populace multiply, and your citizenry defend itself, or not. And if not, then Europe as we have known it will pass away — to the great joy of the Islamists but to the terrible sorrow of America.
I think they have chosen "or not" and I think they are swirling down the toilet bowl.
But times change. Enemies of old (Japan), turn into friends today. I am sorry to see Old Europe die but we need to find new friends (see India).
There is a reason that my great grandfather fled Europe at the tender age of 14. I suspect that many of the remaining Europeans will also flee, and not a few will fight, in the years to come.
Don't write Europe off yet, but it will be dark times ahead.
My native born German Brother - in - Law can't wait to get the heck out of Germany and over here. The interesting thing to me is that my wife's sister (the native american) is the one that is more reluctant to come here. She is somewhat a Liberal Twit, but I can at least talk to her; we have civil conversations even involving politics. My brother will probabbly make a great (if not better) Texan and a fine American.
They should be making their permanent move this spring - he just got approved for his resident Visa and is looking forward to becoming naturalized. As for my sister, she acknowledges that Texas is in better shape than CA and is putting together the correlation between prevailing politics in those states, so I have some hope for her eventual turning away from the dark side.
France has shown recently that it has no qualms about beginning its own, assisted-suicide.
I love his writing. However, some part of me wishes he would just accept the fact that Europe is a lost cause. We have to stop pining for Churchill, Thatcher and Kohl - they are not coming back to lead the continent back to its feet. Instead, we need to focus on (1) making sure the same rapid end-stage decline doesn't happen here, and (2) preparing a welcome for like-minded Euro refugees who will want to escape to the US in the coming decade.
No, the Democrats won't let them in unless they are from the Third World and there is a reasonable chance they can be converted into Democrat voters at some point...pre- or post-achievement of citizenship. ;)
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.