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2005-06-23 Europe

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Posted by mrp 2005-06-23 09:20|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "You cannot survive if you do not know the past. We know why all the other civilizations have collapsed--from an excess of welfare, of richness, and from lack of morality, of spirituality." (She uses "welfare" here in the sense of well-being, so she is talking, really, of decadence.) "The moment you give up your principles, and your values . . . the moment you laugh at those principles, and those values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period."

Words to remember.

Posted by Bobby 2005-06-23 10:45|| 2005-06-23 10:45|| Front Page Top

#2 She fought Nazis in the Italian Resistance, so she knows them when she sees them...

Posted by Ptah">Ptah 2005-06-23 11:00|| http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org]">[http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org] 2005-06-23 11:00|| Front Page Top

#3 Europe is doomed unless it stands up for itself, quickly.

Posted by mmurray821 2005-06-23 11:17|| 2005-06-23 11:17|| Front Page Top

#4 whatever.

Posted by plebe 2005-06-23 11:46|| 2005-06-23 11:46|| Front Page Top

#5 Oriana used to be very anti American back in the 80s and 90s (as was Salmon Rushdie).

She rarely admits this and is rarely asked to comment on this. I think the change is do to accrueing knowledge of and familiarity with Islam (years of being under a death fatwa certainly changed Rushdie's mind).

Either of these two cases would make a good story for a newspaper. However, it would require some modest ability to do research and perform critical thinking and the supply of journalists who can do this is pretty limited.

Posted by mhw 2005-06-23 12:07|| 2005-06-23 12:07|| Front Page Top

#6 Had Mr. Clinton spent less time with voluptuous girls, had he made smarter use of the Oval Office, maybe September 11 would not have occurred.

-Orianna Falacci in today's Opinion Journal

I like this woman...

Fallaci in OpJo

Posted by BigEd 2005-06-23 16:45|| 2005-06-23 16:45|| Front Page Top

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