[lit-ideas] Left's Love Affair with Europe
- From: "Lawrence Helm" <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 08:33:17 -0700
It might seem as though I am trying to equal Omar's production of
uncommented upon articles, but what is occurring, is entirely coincidental.
I just happened to run across several articles that seemed especially apt or
as in the case of the article below, moderately clever. I'll admit that I
normally do comment upon the articles I post, but having recently seen
Omar's spirited defense of silent posting, I thought (feeling lazy) to post
a few without comment. I'm sure this laziness will eventually pass.
Lawrence
The left's love affair with Europe
By Burt Prelutsky
Tuesday, July 25, 2006
Certain people of the leftist persuasion are always trying to convince the
rest of us that Europe is superior to America and, quite frankly, I'm
getting sick and tired of it. We even hear that certain Supreme Court
justices are less interested in what the Constitution says, or what common
sense would dictate, than in how their decisions will be viewed on the other
side of the Atlantic.
Whenever the Europeans do something, no matter how cowardly or corrupt,
their champions in our country can be counted on to put the best possible
face on it. With one socialistic country after another perched on the brink
of bankruptcy, our yahoos continue to ballyhoo their failed policies as if
they were all paid flacks.
What's particularly peculiar is that these are the very same people who
dislike white American males of European descent, but who can't stop gushing
about white European males. Go figure.
These numbskulls insisted that Bush was a puppet of the Saudis, but ignored
the fact that they begged him not to invade Iraq. That's the kind of puppet
that only Stephen King could dream up. Without missing a step, they claimed
that we were only invading Iraq in order to capture its oil fields. While
they no longer repeat that lie, they also never admitted they were mistaken.
Odd, though, that they didn't seem to notice that we didn't confiscate
Kuwait's oil fields after driving out Saddam Hussein in '91. Instead, they
hailed France and Russia for refusing to depose Hussein, ignoring the
sweetheart deals both countries had with the oil broker of Baghdad.
One of the favorite lies the leftists like to parrot is that the U.S. is an
imperialistic power. Wouldn't even the dumbest of them have figured out that
if we were, we'd have far-flung colonies to show for it? At the very least,
wouldn't we have invaded Cuba by this time and sent Castro packing, the way
that America's cigar smokers have long demanded?
The truth is, Europe is a hodgepodge of second-rate powers who don't trust
each other and with good reason. A few of them are so fearful of their own
Muslim populations that they actually feel they have to line up with
Hezbollah and al-Qaeda against Israel. Of course, being as anti-Semitic as
so many Europeans are, they'd probably swing that way in any case.
These loony Americans also tend to side with the Islamic fascists against
the only democracy in the Middle East. So in spite of the fact that the
Muslims represent the antithesis of everything that liberals theoretically
espouse-free speech, equal rights for women, separation of state and
religion, the rule of law, free elections-our lefties consistently side with
the followers of Mohammad.
They also argue that if only America would get out of the Middle East,
Islamic terrorism would come to an end. Once again they choose to ignore the
facts; namely that the terrorist acts were being committed long before we
rescued Kuwait. They also choose to ignore the fact that terrorist bombings
in India, Spain, Bali, Africa, England, Japan, the Philippines, etc., etc.,
have nothing to do with the United States. Likewise, the slaughter of
Christians in Lebanon and other parts of the world has nothing to do with us
or Israel, for that matter. It has everything to do with their blind hatred
of the civilized world.
Of course, these American leftists never get upset about suicide bombings in
Israel or the anti-Semitic ravings of Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. It's only
when Israel defends itself against the lunatics who have sworn to
exterminate the Jews that these moral midgets work themselves into a proper
frenzy.
Quite honestly, not only do I not admire European values, such as they are,
but I can't think of a single European tradition I'd want us to adopt. I
don't want to run naked through the snow like the Finns, I don't want to
have dinner at 11 p.m. like the Spaniards, and I sure don't want to wave a
white flag every time a car backfires like the French!
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