Sunday, March 22, 2009
"Cartoon hyperbole" [Mark Steyn]
That's what The Philadelphia Inquirer's Dick Polman thinks of the warnings by yours truly and others of the Europeanization of America.
He's been on a topless beach in St. Tropez* so he feels there's nothing to worry about.
It's when the bottom drops out you need to worry. I tried to make the point in my NR piece that the reason why Germany has been able to be Germany, and Belgium Belgium, and Sweden Sweden this past half-century is that America is America - not only the de facto military guarantor but also a vast market and the engine of the global economy. Once America starts trending semi-Belgian the whole racket falls apart.
(*By the way, his deplorably ageist remarks about some of the more elderly breasts on display ought to concentrate his mind on the demographic direction of Europe. Look at the young Muslim population spilling out from Marseilles, and figure the likelihood of the Cote d'Azur still being quite so topless circa 2020. Enjoy those beaches while you can.)
03/22 12:53 PM
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