Muslim Europe?

[Gość: ZJP]

The Marquis de Lafayette who came here to fight in our Revolution said, "The
welfare of America is closely bound up with the welfare of mankind." Today,
however, I suspect he would reverse that to say that the welfare of mankind
is bound up with the welfare of America.

In a recent column about Europe, Thomas Friedman of The New York Times wrote
of "the new anti-Americanism, a blend of jealousy and resentment of
America's overwhelming economic and military power." One German editor calls
it the "Axis of Envy." The bottom line, said Friedman, is that "Many
Europeans today fear, or detest, America more than they fear Saddam."

For some time now, whenever we have read or heard a news story about Europe,
it is usually about its refusal, nation by nation, to cooperate with the
United States, to berate the United States, and to cling to some very
outdated and unrealistic notions. We used to think the Europeans were our
allies, but they are really more like our spiteful, poor relations.

The resentment Europeans feel reflects the fact that America is the future
and Europe is the past.

This is brought into sharp focus in a brilliant analysis, "Old and In the
Way," by Karl Zinsmeister. It appears in the December edition of The
American Enterprise\ul \ulnone (www.TAEmag.com). Zinsmeister is the
magazine's editor-in-chief and has the happy facility of taking very
complicated subjects and clarifying them. The magazine is published by the
American Enterprise Institute and is devoted to politics, business, and
culture.

"If Europeans want to ban the death penalty," writes Zinsmeister, "that's
fine with Americans; but don't ask us to follow the same dictate. If
Europeans think selling military technology to North Korea and Iran, and
helping Libya and Iraq with their oil industries is a good idea, expect not
a shred of support from the US. If Europeans believe their determination to
send billions of dollars to Yasser Arafat is likely to speed peace in the
Middle East, we won't stop them."

This is, of course, precisely what the Europeans have been doing in the face
of every indication that the nations with whom they are doing business want
an Islamic Europe or, in the case of North Korea, have demonstrated once
again that no Communist nation can be trusted.

Zinsmeister points out that the elites who run Europe have an exaggerated
belief in the power of diplomacy. This is odd considering the last century's
history in which European diplomacy failed to deter two World Wars. If war
is simply a different form of diplomacy (we've tried talking to Saddam) then
we are soon to apply it to the one man who has given the United Nations the
opportunity to prove beyond any doubt its utter impotence and irrelevance.
The UN is the world's epicenter of blather

[Gość: ZJP]

A number of key factors have consigned Europe to stagnation, and most of them
reflect its love affair with Socialism. Its embrace of statism was undeterred
by the long years of the Cold War ,when the then-Soviet Russia threatened to
impose Communism on the whole of Europe. It had seized or was ceded Eastern
Europe after World War II and it took nearly fifty years for the Poles to cast
them out. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, its captive states rapidly
breathed free air again, but then decided to create its own Soviet in the form
of the European Union, thinking that was the way to compete with the United
States.

The EU is a bunch of bureaucratic elites and Europeans have little or no say
in their dictates. Socialists to the core, they think they will be able to
compete with the US if they just pass a few more thousand rules, regulations,
and, of course, trade restrictions.

The Europeans, however, cannot compete with Americans and Zinsmeister tells us
why. "The locomotive of Europe is the German economy, which has been in a
serious mess for more than a decade. Germany's annual growth rate over the
past ten years has been a limp 1.4 percent."

The answer is just too obvious. "The German labor market has become one of the
most inflexible and uncompetitive in the world, which is why unemployment has
been stuck at 9-10 percent for years, even amid a global economic boom." Ours,
by contrast, is about five percent. If we stop importing high tech and other
workers, unemployed Americans with comparable skills will be able to get back
to work.

To state it plainly, Europeans don't work as hard or as long as Americans. We
are far more productive. Unlike America's immigrants who assimilate, Europe's
immigrant population tends to end up on welfare.

The European Union estimates that it will take fifty million immigrants over
the next few years just to maintain a big enough working population to fund
the programs for those who are retired or soon will be. Most of those
immigrants will come from North Africa and the Middle East. Since Europeans
are not reproducing, the native born Germans, Italians, French and others are
becoming nations of old people with too few to replace them. If this
continues, Europe is a generation away from becoming an Islamic continent.

Zinsmeister's article and magazine is an instant lesson about the decline of
Europe and the rise of the only hope for freedom in the world, the United
States of America.

[xurek]

ZJP, ty sam splodziles ta propagande czy skads skopiowales? Teraz jeszcze
przetlumacz na niemiecki, francuski, wloski, hiszpaniski itd, zeby Europa
zrozumiala i opublikuj na jakims szerszym forum. A moze Twoim zdaniem wystarczy
juz teraz tlumaczenie tylko w arabskim?

God bless America, especially mit a bit of wisdom, it is the highest time for
that...

No i co chodzi?

[Gość: --Michal]

Drogi Xurku. Przez kolega pisze ze Jewropa jest tak sliczna-estetyczna,
grzeczna i socjalistyczna. A to ze z Frenchman'a uzytek na wypadek burdy w
barze jak z koziej dupy traba to sie przkonalem niestety na wlasnych zebach
w "Red Rock" na 17th-tej, nawiesem mowiac to kulowe miejsce mam nadziej ze nasi
nowojorczcy zagladaja.

[Gość: krecha]

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