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Mark Steyn: "Only Bush can save Europe"
Mark Steyn says that the US Presidentâs âtransformationalâ response to Muslim fundamentalism can save the Old World; European âmanagerialismâ canât. Steyn discusses the consequences of basic collapse of European will and the devastatingly low European birthrate on the future of Western civilization. Last July, speaking to the United States Congress, the only assembly on the planet in which heâs still assured of a warm reception, Tony Blair remarked: âAs Britain knows, all predominant power seems for a time invincible but, in fact, it is transient. The question is: What do you leave behind?... Excellent article in between, well worth the few minutes required to read. âWhat do you leave behind?â asked the Prime Minister. There will only be very few and very old ethnic Germans and French and Italians by the mid-point of this century. What will they leave behind? Territories that happen to bear their names and keep up some of the old buildings, in the way that the great cathedral of St Sophia in Constantinople is now a museum run by the Turkish government? Or will the dying European races understand that the only legacy that matters is whether the peoples who will live in those lands after them are reconciled to pluralist, liberal democracy? The Bush vision is the best shot. Posted by: RWV 2004-04-26 |
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