The Red Pill

Europe is tired and complacent under the Socialist protection of the State. Will they eventually become that which they feared, the old Soviet Union?

OpinionJournal - Best of the Web Today: "The New York Post's Ralph Peters has a nice summary of the cultural divide between America and Europe:
Strategically, Europe is in danger of becoming the greatest impediment to positive change in the world. Europe clings to the international status quo, no matter how dreadful, simply because risk has been bred out of its culture. This leaves the United States (and Britain) with the choice of doing that which is necessary and just without Europe's support, or accepting the rules that made the 20th century history's bloodiest.

Europeans are correct when they insist that America has become a danger. We are, indeed, a tremendous threat to their self-satisfaction, to their dread of change, to their moral irresponsibility and to their dreary, state-supported cultures.

Since George W. Bush became president, and especially since he made clear he was taking the offensive in fighting terrorists and reforming the Muslim world, even we Americans have been subjected to a lot of tiresome tut-tutting about the need to cater to European and even Arab public opinion. But really, isn't it better to be right than popular?"