The Old World, same as the Old Media

Herbert E. Meyer politely asks the Old World, "Are you nuts?"

A few highlights:

We believe that rights must be balanced by responsibilities, that personal freedom is a privilege we must be careful not to abuse, and that the rule of law cannot be set aside when it becomes inconvenient.. . .

We recognize that other people see things differently, and we are tolerant of their views. But we believe that our country is worth defending, and if anyone decides that killing us is an okay thing to do we will go after them with everything we�ve got.. . .

It is your abandonment of these beliefs that has created the gap between Europe and the United States. You have ceased to be a Judeo-Christian culture . . ..

Your rate of marriage is at an all-time low, and the number of abortions in Europe is at an all-time high. Indeed, your birth rates are so far below replacement levels that in 30 years or so there will be 70 million fewer Europeans alive than are alive today. Europe is literally dying. And of the children you do manage to produce, all too few will be raised in stable, two-parent households.

Your economy is stagnant because your government regulators make it just about impossible for your entrepreneurs to succeed . . ..

And your armed forces are a joke. With the notable exception of Great Britain, you no longer have the military strength to defend yourselves. Alas, you no longer have the will to defend yourselves.

What worries me even more than all this is your willful blindness.. . .

These nations have been protected by the U.S. too long for their own good, but why they think this entitles them to tell us how to run our own country is beyond me.
Most of these countries are being infiltrated by Muslims as they bring in Arabs, Indians and Pakistanis to work in their industries, because their native populations are shrinking. Yet only the Netherlands seems to understand the danger it has taken into its own bosom.

Western civilization has invited immigrants from the Third World, educated them and employed them in the belief that this openness would prove that we were not a threat, but our own secularism has become the thing that elicited the hatred of their religious radicals. This onslaught is not a purely anti-American one. It is aimed at the most powerful, but Europe shouldn't comfort itself that America is the only one they want. The French are the ones who taught Arabs history, but part of that history is one of colonialism by the French and British, and I don't think that they will be spared, if America is dethroned.

Where did this insolent carping come from? Perhaps from the idea of the New World Order which we helped launch with the United Nations, an oxymoron if ever there was one. Our good will has been betrayed, but we will probably not abandon it, because we're a Judeo-Christian country. We believe in returning good for evil, which is why we're liberating the Iraqi people instead of leaving them to the tender mercies of Saddam.