Reblogged from Vox Day.
Because he is probably correct.
What Americans always fail to understand is that Europeans are, by and large, far more ruthless than they are. They, and not the Europeans or the Russians, were the party responsible for preventing the Serbians from ethnically cleansing the Muslims out of Bosnia and Herzogovina.
When a handful of activists were shot at Kent State, America was wracked with guilt. When the Parisian police handcuffed and drowned dozens of Algerian activists in the Seine, they gave the chief of police a medal.
Attempting to judge European attitudes by the statements of Hollande and Merkel is like judging Americans by Obama’s sanctimonious platitudes. If there is an uprising of the sort envisioned, there will be an ultraviolent, ultranationalist reaction that will make the Russians in Berlin look calm and reasonable.
Keep in mind that Europeans are already banning the wearing of burqahs in public. They are erecting barbed-wire borders and openly abrogating treaties in defense of their nations. Political parties with considerable support are talking openly about tearing up residence permits and enacting mass deportations. Nor do Europeans have much regard for religious liberties behind which Muslims can hide in the USA; Scientology is already banned in Germany and they could literally ban Islam tomorrow if the leadership was amenable. And the fact that the Islamic populations tend to be concentrated only makes the strategic issue that much easier to address, if necessary.
Furthermore, Europeans are far from unarmed. Both France and Germany have more than 30 firearms per 100 population. This is lower than 88.8 per 100 as in the USA, but it is hardly an indication of being defenseless. What Europeans don’t have is handguns; they have the rifles and shotguns that would be more militarily useful.
Americans froget that they are exceptions. Their state is built on the foundation of English war and Protestant, indeed Puritan church practice, true. But the rest of the world is tribal and the medieval harndess exists. We rallied to King (or Kaiser) and Country. To quote Kipling:
It was not part of their blood,
It came to them very late,
With long arrears to make good,
When the Saxon began to hate.They were not easily moved,
They were icy — willing to wait
Till every count should be proved,
Ere the Saxon began to hate.Their voices were even and low.
Their eyes were level and straight.
There was neither sign nor show
When the Saxon began to hate.
There will be no drums. There will be no songs. The Pipes will be silent. But there will be cold steel and barbed wire if this continues.
Pray that we turn, reform, and restore our faith and nation before there is blood on the streets.
I have been wondering about this myself. It reminds me of a book that was required reading in a college history class I took– “Europe, bloody Europe.”
Now, this is the cup the White Men drink
When they go to right a wrong,
And that is the cup of the old world’s hate–
Cruel and strained and strong.
We have drunk that cup–and a bitter, bitter cup–
And tossed the dregs away.
But well for the world when the White Men drink
To the dawn of the White Man’s day!
Now, this is the road that the White Men tread
When they go to clean a land–
Iron underfoot and levin overhead
And the deep on either hand.
We have trod that road–and a wet and windy road–
Our chosen star for guide.
Oh, well for the world when the White Men tread
Their highway side by side!
Now, this is the faith that the White Men hold–
When they build their homes afar–
“Freedom for ourselves and freedom for our sons
And, failing freedom, War.”
We have proved our faith–bear witness to our faith,
Dear souls of freemen slain!
Oh, well for the world when the White Men join
To prove their faith again!
I knew you knew your Kipling
🙂