Let's be honest here: there's a whole crowd in Europe that can't get over its disappointment that the wrong side won the Cold War, and that even lesser-path communism (that is, Euro-socialism) has been shown up as a failure. That's what this [opposition to an Iraq war] is all about, really.
I was immediately concerned, and I asked some of my European co-workers this series of questions:
Since Europe is a failure, would you like to give up your universal health care and trade it in for a system in which 25% of all children go uncovered—and, oh by the way, you will get booted out of the hospital two hours after having surgery.
Since Europe is practicing lesser-path communism, would you like to give up your five weeks vacation and trade it in for two weeks a year, like they do in successful countries.
Since Europe is afraid to deliver a SmackDown to a swarthy dictator, would you like to trade in all of your social workers, who nip problems in the bud, for a penitentiary-industrial complex in which you spend 100 times more on police, prisons, courts, and insurance. You’re crime rate will quadruple, but no worries, just lose all of those wussy gun laws, and you’ll feel as safe as houses.
Since Europe is practicing a scorched earth class warfare policy against its top 1% of the population, would you like to trade in your Marxist-Leninist system of six months paid maternity (and often Paternity) leave for a more capitalist friendly system of no paid leave.
Since Europe needs to start speaking English and only English, would you like to get rid of your free pre-school child-care system and replace it with—well--nothing.
Since Europe needs to start practicing compassionate conservatism, would you like to lose all those eco-friendly policies you are always bragging about and just rip up the whole Kyoto Treaty and instead live life to the fullest, at any cost.
While lots of my colleagues mentioned how nice Americans are individually and how beautiful the geographical features of the country are, alas, to a person, they were all happy to continue just being failures.
