The decline of Britian and Europe continue unabated.
How does China pose a conventional military threat to England?
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Just Britain and Europe?
It is fun to pop off at the French (especially), the Brits (about whom it is hard not to be sentimental), the smug Canadians and all the other Western countries that have lost their soul, their heart, and their will even to survive.
But is the USA that much different? We like to think we are not quite so far gone as the Euro-weenies but we're only an election or so behind. Why we are already using European law. [/sarcasm]
Sure we still have an Army that can kick some butt. But does anybody think that even the USA Army, already feminized and soon to be sodomized, has the grit that it once had? This ain't just rhetoric; if the currently favored presidential candiate is elected with a congressional majority we will see open homosexuality in the U.S. armed forces. Just an example, though.
What has happened to our public schools? Decent people are being chased out, increasingly giving them up to "urban" culture. Sure, some of our kids are doing great in non-public education. But what does it say that they have had to give up and walk away from the neighborhood schools where there parents were educated and that they pay for?
And our great American corporations....how many of them are really "American" in any meaningful sense? They have owners (shareholders)who live all over the world and they do business all over the world. They increasingly seek to operate from the cheapest shore without regard to nationhood. In what sense are they American corporations?
And, of course, there is the open southern border. We feel kinda good about having won a little battle recently on this front. But is the border controlled or is it likely to be? And when illegals are caught -- even for a serious crime -- aren't they often able to skip bail and carry right along? Doesn't every week bring news of another fiasco (this week from New Jersey) of an illegal -- previously apprehended -- out free and taking more American lives, either with a gun or while drunk behind the wheel.
And what do Americans believe? Tens of millions of them believe that George Bush steals elections, that the Iraq war is a sham affair ginned up by Dick Cheney to profit his buds at Haliburton, and that 9/11 was an inside job.
And are we secure now that we've created a huge new workforce of unskilled "urban" Americans carrying out a charade of airport security, under orders to give the same scrutiny to a grandma from Dubuque as to a group of young Arab men?
Those other weenies -- the French, the Brits, the Canadians and all the rest -- are probably finished. I could enjoy it more -- the schadenfreude and all -- if we were more than a half step behind them.