David Strom:
Europe sees us as the petulant child who deserves a scolding, when in fact they are freeloaders who act like 35-year-old manchilds living in their parents' basements lecturing their parents that they don't understand how important playing video games is.
I have some news for Europe: YOU CANNOT DEFEND YOURSELVES WITHOUT THE UNITED STATES. Every bit--every bit--of their current but declining prosperity stems from the fact that the US has acted as a protector and a referee for, if you include World War II, over 80 years.
Europe is deindustrializing--choosing to become actually poorer and more dependent--and lectures us about how we don't do enough for them. The average EU citizen is now poorer than the average Mississippian, but if you mentioned Mississippi to any of them they would laugh at them as rubes. They laugh at all of us as rubes, and then demand we defend them. Germany cannot put 20 fighter jets in the air. Its tanks are falling apart. No European country could defend its own borders, no less push back Russia.
# posted by Ranger @ 6:24 PM
