James A. Donald
> > The Ayatollah is building missiles capable of
> > reaching Europe, hopes to have nukes soon, and
> > predicts the conquest of Europe or some part thereof
> > in 2020. And the reaction of Europeans is to
> > protest the installation of a missile ****eld! The
> > Ayatollah probably does not have the strength to
> > rule Europe, but neither do Europeans have the will
> > to defend themselves. Sooner or later, this
> > overripe fruit will fall to the ground. I hope that
> > the nation state unwilling to defend its citizens
> > will eventually be ignored by citizens willing to
> > defend themselves, but fear an outcome considerably
> > less sunny.
"*Anarcissie*"
> I think the Ayatollah's closest neighbors have the
> most to worry about from his missiles and nukes, if
> any.
Muslims are looking for a new Saladin, and most Muslim
leaders hope to be a new Saladin. Saladin united
quarreling Muslim sects under his rule, then defeated
the crusaders, with the result that the quarrelsome
sects forgave him the violent means that he employed to
attain unity.
> Several years ago the nascent EU began talking about
> having their own military instead of NATO, and the US
> moved heaven and earth to prevent this development.
I recollect events differently:
I recollect various unsuccessful French effort to prove
that France still mattered by sabotaging anything their
allies did, cuddling up to their enemies, who unfailing
treated these overtures with the contempt that they
deserved, and encouraging the murder of Jews, perhaps to
compensate for their failure to entirely eradicate the
Jews in World War II.
Several years ago, Europe, with vigorous American
encouragement and sup****t, attempted to itself resolve
conflicts in the Balkans, which resulted in universal
contempt for their unsoldierly conduct, military
incapacity, cowardice, and treachery. Should Europe
have an army, that army will be contemptible in the eyes
of their enemies.
The only real nation remaining in Europe is Britain, and
even the British army conspicuously failed to cover
itself with glory in Basra and the Persian Gulf.
> I suppose after that wriggle of autonomy they have
> lapsed back into their passive Cold-War posture of
> yesteryear for the time being. However, that will not
> last forever. And I would not want to be among those
> who caused the Germans to feel uneasy.
Should Germans suffer an Islamic intifada similar to
that the French are suffering, they will most likely
eventually respond by killing Jews and nationalizing
American businesses.
Europeans are the heirs of two and half thousand years
of the deadliest military tradition on the planet, and I
doubt that Europe is gone forever, but they must undergo
some very great transformation, a death and rebirth,
before they rise again.
The nation state derives its cohesion, vigor, and
military capability from what is now called racism and
ethnocentrism. Without these, it must collapse,
possibly to be replaced by even worse forms of state -
such as the universalist theocratic state.
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We have the right to defend ourselves and our property, because
of the kind of animals that we are. True law derives from this
right, not from the arbitrary power of the omnipotent state.
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James A. Donald
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