[CS-FSLUG] NI: Europe, thy name is Cowardice

Tue Jul 26 07:13:05 CDT 2005

Unfortunately, I think that the author is right.  Appeasement will only
make things worse.  The fight is inevitable, but not many people realise
that.

Fred A. Miller wrote:

>It's fascinating that this should come out of Europe.  Matthias Dapfner, Chief 
>Executive of the huge German publisher Axel Springer AG, has written a 
>blistering attack in DIE WELT, Germany's largest daily newspaper, against the 
>timid reaction of Europe in the face of the Islamic threat.
>
>This is a must read by all Americans. History will certify its correctness.
>
>EUROPE - THY NAME IS COWARDICE
>(Commentary by Mathias Dapfner CEO, Axel Springer, AG)
>
>A few days ago Henry Broder wrote in Welt am Sonntag, "Europe – your 
>family name is appeasement." It's a phrase you can't get out of your head 
>because it's so terribly true.
>
>Appeasement cost millions of Jews and non-Jews their lives as England and 
>France, allies at the time, negotiated and hesitated too long before they 
>noticed that Hitler had to be fought, not bound to toothless agreements.
>
>Appeasement legitimized and stabilized Communism in the Soviet Union, then 
>East Germany, then all the rest of Eastern Europe where for decades, inhuman, 
>suppressive, and murderous governments were glorified as the ideologically 
>correct alternative to all other possibilities.
>
>Appeasement crippled Europe when genocide ran rampant in Kosovo, and even 
>though we had absolute proof of ongoing mass-murder, we Europeans debated and 
>debated and debated, and were still debating when finally the Americans had 
>to come from halfway around the world, into Europe yet again, and do our work 
>for us.
>
>Rather than protecting democracy in the Middle East, European appeasement, 
>camouflaged behind the fuzzy word "equidistance," now countenances suicide 
>bombings in Israel by fundamentalist Palestinians.
>
>Appeasement generates a mentality that allows Europe to ignore nearly 500,000 
>victims of Saddam's torture and murder machinery and, motivated by the 
>self-righteousness of the peace-movement, has the gall to issue bad grades to 
>George Bush... Even as it is uncovered that the loudest critics of the 
>American action in Iraq made illicit billions, no, TENS of billions, in the 
>corrupt U.N. Oil-for-Food program.
>
>And now we are faced with a particularly grotesque form of appeasement...
>How is Germany reacting to the escalating violence by Islamic fundamentalists 
>in Holland and elsewhere? By suggesting that we really should have a "Muslim 
>Holiday" in Germany.
>
>I wish I were joking, but I am not. A substantial fraction of our (German) 
>Government, and if the polls are to be believed, the German people, actually 
>believe that creating an Official State "Muslim Holiday" will somehow spare 
>us from the wrath of the fanatical Islamists.
>
>One cannot help but recall Britain's Neville Chamberlain waving the laughable 
>treaty signed by Adolph Hitler, and declaring European "Peace in our time".
>
>What else has to happen before the European public and its political 
>leadership get it? There is a sort of crusade underway, an especially 
>perfidious crusade consisting of systematic attacks by fanatic Muslims, 
>focused on civilians, directed against our free, open Western societies, and 
>intent upon Western Civilization's utter destruction.
>
>It is a conflict that will most likely last longer than any of the great 
>military conflicts of the last century - a conflict conducted by an enemy 
>that cannot be tamed by "tolerance" and "accommodation" but is actually 
>spurred on by such gestures, which have proven to be, and will always be 
>taken by the Islamists for signs of weakness.
>
>Only two recent American Presidents had the courage needed for 
>anti-appeasement: Reagan and Bush.
>
>His American critics may quibble over the details, but we Europeans know the 
>truth. We saw it first hand: Ronald Reagan ended the Cold War, freeing half 
>of the German people from nearly 50 years of terror and virtual slavery. And 
>Bush, supported only by the Social Democrat Blair, acting on moral 
>conviction, recognized the danger in the Islamic War against democracy. His 
>place in history will have to be evaluated after a number of years have 
>passed.
>
>In the meantime, Europe sits back with charismatic self-confidence in the 
>multicultural corner, instead of defending liberal society's values and being 
>an attractive center of power on the same playing field as the true great 
>powers, America and China.
>
>On the contrary - we Europeans present ourselves, in contrast to those 
>"arrogant Americans", as the World Champions of "tolerance", which even 
>(Germany's Interior Minister) Otto Schily justifiably criticizes.
>
>Why? Because we're so moral? I fear it's more because we're so materialistic, 
>so devoid of a moral compass.
>
>For his policies, Bush risks the fall of the dollar, huge amounts of 
>additional national debt, and a massive and persistent burden on the American 
>economy - because unlike almost all of Europe, Bush realizes what is at stake 
>- literally everything.
>
>While we criticize the "capitalistic robber barons" of America because they 
>seem too sure of their priorities, we timidly defend our Social Welfare 
>systems. Stay out of it! It could get expensive! We'd rather discuss reducing 
>our 35-hour workweek or our dental coverage, or our 4 weeks of paid 
>vacation... Or listen to TV pastors preach about the need to "reach out to 
>terrorists. To understand and forgive".
>
>These days, Europe reminds me of an old woman who, with shaking hands, 
>frantically hides her last pieces of jewelry when she notices a robber 
>breaking into a neighbor's house.
>
>Appeasement? Europe, thy name is Cowardice.
>
>  
>

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