Re: The Cowardly Europeons

Research who that guy is, see who he supports (I'll save you some time -
Bush & Co.), and then maybe you'll understand why he's voicing an opinion
contrary to most people with a clue, and why you're lapping up every
ridiculously biassed word of it.

And that *** is OLD! Did you only just find it? Darn those internets are
slow. All of 'em.

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> EUROPE - THY NAME IS COWARDICE
>
> Strong Words From Germany
>
> Die Welt | Matthias Dapfner
>
>
> Strong words from Germany
>
> Matthias Dapfner, Chief Executive of the huge German publishing house
> Axel Springer AG, has written a blistering attack in DIE WELT (The
> World), Germany's largest daily newspaper, against the timid reaction
> of Europe in the face of the Islamic threat.
>
> EUROPE - THY NAME IS COWARDICE
>
> Commentary by Mathias Dapfner CEO, Axel Springer, AG)
>
> A few days ago Henry Broder wrote in WELT AM SONNTAG (Sunday World):
> "Europe - your family name is appeasement." It's a phrase you can't
> get out of your head because it's so terribly true. Appeasement cost
> millions of Jews and non-Jews their lives as England and France,
> allies at the time, negotiated and hesitated too long before they
> noticed that Hitler had to be fought, not bound to toothless
> agreements.
>
> Appeasement legitimized and stabilized Communism in the Soviet Union,
> then East Germany, then all the rest of Eastern Europe where for
> decades, inhuman, suppressive, murderous governments were glorified as
> the ideologically correct alternative to all other possibilities.
>
> Appeasement crippled Europe when genocide ran rampant in Kosovo, and
> even though we had absolute proof of ongoing mass-murder, we Europeans
> debated and debated and debated, and were still debating when finally
> the Americans had to come from halfway around the world, into Europe
> yet again, and do our work for us.
>
> Rather than protecting democracy in the Middle East, European
> appeasement, camouflaged behind the fuzzy word "equidistance," now
> countenances suicide bombings in Israel by fundamentalist
> Palestinians.
>
> Appeasement generates a mentality that allows Europe to ignore nearly
> 500,000 victims of Saddam's torture and murder machinery and,
> motivated by the self-righteousness of the peace-movement, has the
> gall to issue bad grades to George Bush... Even as it is uncovered
> that the loudest critics of the American action in Iraq made illicit
> billions, no, TENS of billions, in the corrupt UN. Oil-for-Food
> program. And now we are faced with a particularly grotesque form of
> appeasement... How is Germany reacting to the escalating violence by
> Islamic fundamentalists in Holland and elsewhere? By suggesting that
> we really should have a "Muslim Holiday" in Germany. I wish I were
> joking, but I am not. A substantial fraction of our (German)
> Government, and if the polls are to be believed, the German people,
> actually believe that creating an Official State "Muslim Holiday" will
> somehow spare us from the wrath of the fanatical Islamists. One cannot
> help but recall Britain's Neville Chamberlain waving the laughable
> treaty signed by Adolf Hitler, and declaring European "Peace in our
> time".
>
> What else has to happen before the European public and its political
> leadership get it? There is a sort of crusade underway, an especially
> perfidious crusade consisting of systematic attacks by fanatic
> Muslims, focused on civilians, directed against our free, open Western
> societies, and intent upon Western Civilization's utter destruction.
>
> It is a conflict that will most likely last longer than any of the
> great military conflicts of the last century - a conflict conducted by
> an enemy that cannot be tamed by "tolerance" and "accommodation" but
> is actually spurred on by such gestures, which have proven to be, and
> will always be taken by the Islamists for signs of weakness.
>
> Only two recent American Presidents had the courage needed for
> anti-appeasement: Reagan and Bush. His American critics may quibble
> over the details, but we Europeans know the truth. We saw it first
> hand: Ronald Reagan ended the Cold War, freeing half of the German
> people from nearly 50 years of terror and virtual slavery. And Bush,
> supported only by the Social Democrat Blair, acting on moral
> conviction, recognized the danger in the Islamic War against
> democracy. His place in history will have to be evaluated after a
> number of years have passed.
>
> In the meantime, Europe sits back with charismatic self-confidence in
> the multicultural corner, instead of defending liberal society's
> values and being an attractive center of power on the same playing
> field as the true great powers, America and China.
>
> On the contrary - we Europeans present ourselves, in contrast to those
> "arrogant Americans", as the World Champions of "tolerance", which
> even (Germany's Interior Minister) Otto Schily justifiably criticizes.
> Why? Because we're so moral? I fear it's more because we're so
> materialistic, so devoid of a moral compass.
>
> For his policies, Bush risks the fall of the dollar, huge amounts of
> additional national debt, and a massive and persistent burden on the
> American economy - because unlike almost all of Europe, Bush realizes
> what is at stake - literally everything.
>
> While we criticize the "capitalistic robber barons" of America because
> they seem too sure of their priorities, we timidly defend our Social
> Welfare systems. Stay out of it! It could get expensive! We'd rather
> discuss reducing our 35-hour workweek or our dental coverage, or our 4
> weeks of paid vacation... Or listen to TV pastors preach about the
> need to "reach out to terrorists. To understand and forgive".
>
> These days, Europe reminds me of an old woman who, with shaking hands,
> frantically hides her last pieces of jewelry when she notices a robber
> breaking into a neighbor's house.
>
> Appeasement? Europe, thy name is Cowardice.


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