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2006-03-07 Europe

Defeating Defeatism - The End of the Phony War (Wolfgang Bruno)

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Posted by anonymous5089 2006-03-07 03:16|| || Front Page|| [11130 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1
Americans tend to consider the EU as a joke. Its not, because its not funny.

I disagree with him here, but otherwise that's a fine essay.

Posted by Matt 2006-03-07 08:52|| 2006-03-07 08:52|| Front Page Top

#2 The European political elites will never stop appeasing the Islamists because they have invested too much to change now. However they can be voted out of office, and THAT would be a European revolution.

Al

Posted by Frozen Al">Frozen Al 2006-03-07 09:10|| 2006-03-07 09:10|| Front Page Top

#3 It would have been a great piece if his bone picking with Mark Steyn wasn't so personal and ridiculously trivial.

Posted by 2b 2006-03-07 09:40|| 2006-03-07 09:40|| Front Page Top

#4 Give the man a cigar!

Posted by Bobby 2006-03-07 11:57|| 2006-03-07 11:57|| Front Page Top

#5 I don't really think there is a personal bone picking here, since they really aren't on the same level (one is a somewhat obscure freelance blogger, the other a widely diffused op-editorialist, come on, I don't think WB is that egomaniac, or so I hope), but rather a fundamental disagreement.

Posted by anonymous5089 2006-03-07 12:11|| 2006-03-07 12:11|| Front Page Top

#6 His solutions are too high tech

What is really needed is a radio station to broadcast 'news of the Islamic world' to the Islamic world in the languages of the Islamic world with that station having music, sports, etc. with an Islamic bent but also including a few hours a week of apostate points of view and well as a few hours a week of sermons from mainstream imans.

The vast bulk of people in the Islamic world are hungry for non-govt news about Islam and most people have access to a radio through personnal ownership or clan rights (TV is much less available).

Posted by mhw 2006-03-07 12:42|| 2006-03-07 12:42|| Front Page Top

#7 Many people quite knowledgeable about the significance of the Islamic fascist threat are plainly afraid to discuss what they know, unlike authors like Bat Ye'or. Opening an information front against Islam as suggested in this essay would really heat things up, and would make the Cartoon Jihad look like the joke it is.

Posted by Snuns Thromp1484 2006-03-07 12:50|| 2006-03-07 12:50|| Front Page Top

#8 Steyn defeatist? Not outside the W. European dhimmis

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-03-07 13:09|| 2006-03-07 13:09|| Front Page Top

#9 If the native population of Europe would get its birthrate up, they might not need so many workers imported to prop up their pension system.

Posted by eLarson 2006-03-07 16:53|| http://larsonian.blogspot.com]">[http://larsonian.blogspot.com] 2006-03-07 16:53|| Front Page Top

#10 Could easily be said for the US as well.

Posted by Besoeker 2006-03-07 17:23|| 2006-03-07 17:23|| Front Page Top

#11 I'm tired of the barefoot and breed em' argument. It's just another example of "somebody else" needs to get busy and fix the problem. Maybe we should require that people get a license before we allow them to have kids and they can't have them them unless they show they have the ability to care for them financially and emotionally.

I'm just saying that my second argument is no less stupid than the first.

Posted by 2b 2006-03-07 18:53|| 2006-03-07 18:53|| Front Page Top

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