In a rare Obama administration success, we pulled off a major diplomatic offensive a few weeks back in Asia, setting China back on its heels, diplomatically speaking. We’re standing up a new beachhead in Northern Australia, Opening up Burma (Myanmar) and China’s neighbors are cosying up to us, encouraging our involvement in the region.
Looking across the Atlantic, things ain't so great...
“The nose of the British Bulldog has been slanted backwards so that he can breathe without letting go” -- Winston ChurchillMeanwhile, Europe is in its death throes, with member states lacerating and devouring one another. First, irresponsible governments loaded up on free money, incurring crushing debt and demanding others pay, and now this …
“BRITAIN last night faced a revenge attack for David Cameron’s EU snub when a senior Brussels bureaucrat promised a new deluge of damaging red tape on UK business.” (EU Plots Revenge against Britain)What a slice of reality. Europeans no longer fight wars. They now threaten one another with onerous paperwork. Britain was smart to keep its own currency, and it is now distancing itself further from the imploding EU experiment, incurring the wrath of the unelected Continental Poobahs in Brussels. The British Bulldog, however, is not backing down…
Conservative MP Douglas Carswell said: [...] “If he is such an economic genius, why is the continent that he helps to preside over heading down a debt vortex? He should be worrying about his own maths, not ours.”
Stephen Booth, of the Euro-sceptic think tank Open Europe, said: “The threat of EU regulation on the City of London remains.
“The British Government must continue to push to prevent any further unnecessary and unwanted regulation from Brussels.” (EU Plots Revenge against Britain)Britons are tough, but it worries me that we have a Great Britain hater in the White House. Our closest and most trusted ally may need some backup if it is to survive the continental collapse...
Meanwhile, wild-eyed practitioners of the Religion of Peace bombed and shot up the city center of Liege, Belgium, killing or wounding almost 100 people. It was all a matter of "honor" with links back to *Surprise!* Pakistan.
It’s the Decline and Fall of Rome on a continental scale...
Lest anyone on this side of the Atlantic give vent to a schadenfreude-induced chortle, let us recall that we ourselves teeter on the brink.
So the Olde Continent is in economic collapse, and its once brave societies have turned “weak and effeminate*.” The barbaric invaders have overwhelmed the decadent hosts; the 7th century obscurantists who Europe invited in will finish the job, just as the Vandals and the Goths finished off Rome, picking through the ruins and hauling off the marble. A darkness of ignorance will fall upon the continent, as it does anywhere civilization cedes ground to Islam.
So the US is right to turn our attentions away from the Middle East and Europe. They deserve one another. The Western Hemisphere has enough gas, oil and coal, there’s no further need to spill our blood and treasure on ungrateful bastards. Vietnam (yes, that Vietnam) and it’s neighbors are welcoming us because China is an imperial bully.
China's Hu tells all the Hu's in Huville to prepare for war
Chinese President Hu Jintao on Tuesday urged the navy to prepare for military combat, amid growing regional tensions over maritime disputes and a US campaign to assert itself as a Pacific power.War with China is not inevitable. Neither is the fall of Europe. Our destiny is in our hands. Do we have the wisdom, strength and courage to grasp it?
* - Gibbons’ observation on Rome’s decline
London’s Bankers Tell EU to Get Bent
