|
" . . . the main reason Europeans hate Israel is that they hate America; and the main reason they hate America is that they really hate themselves."
" . . . Europe's problems with Israel and America can be boiled down to these two attributes: guilt and arrogance."
"The Europeans, as we all know, are now the backseat drivers of history. They had their hands on the wheel for a very long time, and the world is better off for it — an assertion which is, sadly, politically incorrect on both sides of the Atlantic, but no less obviously true for being so. Were it not for European civilization leading the way for much of the last thousand years, humanity would be in a ditch. To suggest otherwise is to dabble in fantasy.
But, around the middle of the last century, the Europeans got lost and America had to get into the driver's seat. This was very embarrassing for the Euros . . . "
"As a way to compensate with this indignity, and with its own errors, Europe internalized the moral conclusions of the Left. The churches stand empty across the Continent. Nihilism, relativism, postmodernism, subjectivity, deconstructionism: These are the tools used to dismantle and diminish the accomplishments of a once-great civilization."
"But — most of all — imperialism and colonialism are now the original sins of European Man."
" . . . the collapse of empire has done more to shape the modern West European mind than the lessons of World War II did. . . . Europeans decided to justify their withdrawal from empire as a moral epiphany rather than a surrender."
" . . . American leftists can be counted on to explain away or justify just about any inner-city pathology, Europeans are likely to make excuses for their former subjects ad nauseum unless someone — usually America — shames them out of it. . . . across the Atlantic a continent of guilty white liberals has spent a generation coming up with excuses for their former colonial subjects, making the same kind of allowances for violence and 'pent-up rage.'"
"But white liberal guilt, here or abroad, is relatively harmless by itself. It only becomes dangerous when — mixed with moral relativism and an arrogance so colossal it threatens to throw the planet off its rotational axis — it becomes policy. The Europeans are the enablers of barbarity for the simple reason that it makes them feel like they're still in charge in some way."
"The Europeans still believe they are the avant-gardes of history. They believe they are more enlightened, more sophisticated, more capable of reading the map to the future."
"This attitude causes European 'intellectuals' to predict the imminent comeuppance of the U.S. If schadenfreude is the joy one feels at another's misfortune, then we need a word for the rage that comes with anticipating a misfortune that doesn't happen."
"In short, they can lecture us all they want about colonialism, but it falls on deaf ears over here because we were never like them."
"The Europeans see the United States and Israel through the lens of their own nostalgia. . . . the French increasingly assume the mantle of victimhood against an imperial America."
"Meanwhile, Israel is cast as the seat of the American raj in the Arab world. The analogy is, of course, absurd. But absurdity goes hand-in-hand with being a nation of so many cheeses. Israel isn't a colony and, except as refugees, the Israelis have no place to go."
2:39:02 PM Google It! 
|
