I hope Peters is right, but I consider that childishly optimistic

Submitted by Charles Martel (United States), Apr 15, 2008 at 11:17

As Daniel said, the Europeans are riddled with guilt and (literally) decadent (lacking vigor) -- they don't even reproduce themselves.

Europeans don't have the toughness needed. World War I beat it out of France and World War II beat it out of Germany and Britain.

Also, IF the Europeans do have the toughness, it will be Nazi-ish -- antisemetic as well as anti-Moslem.

Apparently Western Civilization is an ultimately self-destructive enterprise -- it provides so much prosperity that it creates lassitude (like the passive Eloi in H.G. Wells's Time Machine)

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