Buh-Bye Europe

Losers

Mark Steyn who is one of my most enjoyable reads, has a new book out [America Alone] that, unlike Tony Blankley's "The West's Last Chance: Will We Win the Clash of Civilizations?" doesn't see any real chance for Europe to forestall things.  Actually, Blankley didn't paint too rosy a picture either.  I see too much of us in this picture to suit me. If you want to buy it I am, under special license from Amazon, able to sell it to you for nearly half the published price.  Here's a snippet of  Richard Kirk's review. ''This population bust spells disaster for Ponzi-shaped welfare schemes that depend on young bodies to support generational transfers to oldsters who neglected the primary task of regeneration. Greece's pension liabilities, for example, are projected to reach 25% of GDP by 2040. More immigration from people-rich Muslim nations is the clear "solution" to this demographic vacuum -- a solution that's already altered the habits of women in Amsterdam and London who "cover up" to avoid jeers in increasingly Muslim neighborhoods. Such examples show how, in Western Europe, assimilation has come to mean (as Kofi Annan implied when commenting on the Danish cartoon violence) a nation adjusting its ways to accommodate new arrivals. ''Steyn's term, "Eurabia," suggests the future he foresees for a continent flirting with a "demographic death spiral" and brooding in the lounge of that "old ennui." Rotterdam, where the Muslim population is 40%, may presage the shape of things by 2050 -- or sooner if "white-flight" out of "Eutopia" accelerates. In such an environment, "Pre-modern Islam beats post-modern Christianity." Put more dramatically, it's unlikely that "Pornistan" will peacefully co-exist with "the Islamic Republic of Holland." And in the struggle between those two, the strong horse doesn't belong to those who take pride in the fact that they aren't prepared to die for anything.''