Posted on 11/20/2018 3:37:30 PM PST by aspasia
lmost everything French president Emmanuel Macron has said recently on the topic of foreign affairs, the United States, and nationalism and patriotism is silly. He implicitly rebukes Donald Trump for praising the idea of nationalism as a creed in which citizens of sovereign nations expect their leaders to put the interests of their fellow citizens first and those of other nations second. And while critiquing nationalism, Macron nonetheless talks and acts as though he is an insecure French chauvinist of the first order.
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Some good trickling out of NRO. Which goes to show you, don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.
Especially good is his countering the suggestion that nationalism caused the world wars--in fact, nationalism saved Western Civ.
” the very absence of British and French nationalism — whether symbolized by the Oxford Union debate of 1933 or the reluctance of French schools in the 1930s to reference the bloody heroics at Verdun — led to appeasement and a fatal reliance on a weak and a morally neutered League of Nations, a series of unenforceable arms-limitations treaties, and “international opinion.” -VDH
Where’s the VDH ping list?
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