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| Mark Steyn: "Only Bush can save Europe" |
| 2004-04-26 |
| Mark Steyn says that the US President’s ‘transformational’ response to Muslim fundamentalism can save the Old World; European ‘managerialism’ can’t. 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 he’s still assured of a warm reception, Tony Blair remarked: ‘As 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. ‘What do you leave behind?’ 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 |
| #1 I first started reading this sort of stuff the week of 9/11, and am more and more convinced our kids and our kids' kids will rue the day we didn't scream it into their faces... It's like being transported back in time like some stupid Twilight Zone episode, being made to watch the Russian Revolution as Lenin consolidated his power, fought the "Red vs White" war and came out on top. Somebody's gonna have to deal with it, and somebody's gonna die doing it... we'd all be better off waking up now and dealing with it now, while we're stronger than them, than leaving it to our kids when their adversary has become stronger. If it wasn't so tragic, it'd make a good Simpsons/South Park episode... oh yeah, those jerkoffs don't take this shit seriously, either... |
| Posted by: geezer 2004-04-26 11:28:16 PM |