Europe needs some backbone, or its over. ============== At last count, members of the European Union spent more than $200 billion a year on defense, fielded more than 2,000 jet fighters and 500 naval ships, and employed some 1.4 million military personnel. More than a million police officers also walk Europe’s streets. Yet in the face of an Islamist menace the Continent... Read more
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Europe is Hopeless, No?
July 27 | Posted by mrossol | Europe, Politically correct, The Left, Western CivilizationThe Bedouin Billionaire for Muslim Integration
June 20 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Europe, Western CivilizationStep up, folks. Most immigrants who have succeeded have had to do it. ============ WSJ 6/18/2016 Monaco Mohed Altrad came into this world after his father raped his mother somewhere in the Syrian desert. He doesn’t know his date of birth or his age. He is likely in his 60s but can’t be sure. He doesn’t know where exactly he was born either. Today... Read more
Put Britain at ‘The Back of the Queue?”
June 20 | Posted by mrossol | Europe, Obama, Western CivilizationYou will not hear the liberal media call President Obama out on this one, but really, how brazen does the man have to be to lecture USA’s best allies? ========== WSJ 6/18/2016 By Andrew Roberts On June 23 the British people will be going to the polls to choose whether they want to continue with the present system whereby 60% of British laws are... Read more
Poll: Unease of Islam Growing in EU
May 8 | Posted by mrossol | Europe, Islam, Western CivilizationSometimes I can’t believe it has taken this long. Of course, the liberal left, with its dominance in the media, likely have a significant impact filtering what might be a significantly wide-spread unease. ============ France is waking up. Breitbart reports that “an Ifop poll for Le Figaro measuring perceptions of Islam has found that people have a growing sense of unease about its... Read more
Is Anyone Awake?
April 12 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Europe, ISIS, Radical Islam, The Left, Western CivilizationWhat am I missing? ============ WSJ 4/11/2016 By James P. Cain Two Saturdays ago, just outside Maastricht, the Netherlands, I visited the 65 acre American Cemetery in Margraten. A sea of marble white crosses and Stars of David is arrayed in a gentle arc marking the final resting place of 8,301 American soldiers who fell nearby while ensuring the liberty and security of a... Read more
World Order in Crisis
November 21 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Europe, The Left, Western CivilizationI have slowly drifted from supporting American military involvement in “other’s affairs”, but this article has given me pause. Have you noticed how far the world as “disintegrated” in a mere 7 years from what “stability” there was in the past 60 or so? And what did America’s involvement have to do with the order we have had during this... Read more
