Monday - March 13, 2006

Brain Food

I‘ve just spent the last few days digging into some new reading material. It’s a new book out by Claire Berlinski entitled, ”Menace in Europe : Why the Continent’s Crisis Is America’s, Too” (Crown Forum Books, Pub. February, 2006, 288 pp.). Besides the fact that Ms. Berlinski is an outstandingly gorgeous lady (as evidenced by the jacket cover photo), this is one of the most informative books I’ve read in a long time. Ms. Berlinski is an American, living in Europe. She holds a degree in modern history and a doctorate in international relations from Oxford. Pretty good credentials if you ask me.

The book gives an insight into modern Europe that you and I have only had glimpses of from across the pond. You and I make fun of the French and a lot of us here look on “Old Europe” with scorn. After reading the first few chapters, I think we all may be making a huge mistake. Europeans have walked away from their Christian roots and are now a dying breed as birth rates fall. The Muslim immigrants are needed to keep a failing economy going - but at what price.

One concept she introduces is the current environment of appeasement in Europe to the Islamic radicals who are spreading across the continent. Memories of World War II are still vividly alive in Europeans and they shy away from any act that might remotely be compared to the horrors of the Nazi regime. The really frightening aspect of all this is that Europe’s problems are our problems too - but on a smaller scale, for the present. The politcally correct movement, the mosques in Detroit - they’re all tiny models of what is happening in Europe on a larger scale. Where Europe goes, we will surely follow - unless we address the problem and urge our European counterparts to do the same.

I’m only about halfway through the book but my perspective on Europe has already changed immeasurably. It is enlightening to see things over there from intelligent eyes that are over there in the middle of the mess that is brewing. It is also dangerously unsettling, to say the least. I urge you to grab a copy of this book and give it a read. Ms. Berlinski wrote the book after travelling from London to Istanbul and making observations along the way. It’s not a travelogue - but it could well be an obituary for the continent unless things change.

Posted by The Skipper     on 03/13/2006 at 11:49 AM   
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