[lit-ideas] Re: Londonistan
- From: "Lawrence Helm" <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2006 22:19:46 -0800
You should read how the Muslims getting away with almost anything they like
and the judges and cops are letting them so as not to seem racist.
Technology isn't helping the Europeans and their economy is own a downslope
because of the cost of entitlements (an enormous amount of which goes to
Muslims on welfare). Also, you should read how managed the press is in
Europe. Bawer would compare what he was reading in European papers (in
regard to various major events) to what he was getting on the internet from
the U.S. and was amazed. Europeans are being taught the U.S. is the great
Satan - no irony was intended, just disgust. This was one of the elements
where I parted company with Fukuyama. He was impressed that nations in the
Middle East (with managed presses) and Europe (with managed presses) didn't
like us. Bawer thought Britain had the freest press in Europe, but nations
like the Netherlands and Sweden in thinking they had Free Presses had
presses that ranged from Far Left to Near Left. And this is what makes some
writers despair. Europe needs to have immigration policies more like ours
but they aren't being permitted to see us clearly; which makes it even more
likely that they will eventually go Fascist berserk when they finally get
fed up. It is not in our best interest to see that happen to Europe, but I
don't know what we can do about it. Perhaps Berlinski will.
Lawrence
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Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Londonistan
From: "Lawrence Helm" <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Why do I think Europe is in danger of losing its identify? (...) I
> don't know, evidence, common sense, logic.
And you ignore technology, economics, etc. Europe is a vast, complex, highly
educated
technological society.
This is like saying the Mexican farm workers are going to seize control of
the USA.
> American is "The Great Satan" to almost as many Europeans as Muslims.
Tony Judt pointed this out in the NYRB. In a short sentence, he said the
USSR lost the Cold
War, but the USA didn't win it either.
The USA came out of the Cold War, expecting to get recognition for saving
everyone from the
USSR. But that didn't happen. The USA is probably more despised and feared
now than ever in
its history.
This is due to US policies during the Cold War (destroying democracies and
installing brutal
dictatorships in South America, South East Asia, South Korea, Iran, the
Middle East).
And then there's the USA after the Cold War: starting illegal wars,
threatening more wars in
Syria, Iran, North Korea, and generally acting arrogant towards everyone
else.
So Judt is right: the USA didn't win the Cold War, not in the sense the
Allies won WWII.
Lawrence sees this when he writes that the USA is the Great Satan to almost
everyone. What
an irony, no?
yrs,
andreas
www.andreas.com
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