An Old Fashioned Angst Filled Rant

http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2009/10/dangerously-myopic.html

From the superb EU referendum blog – my first stop every day on the blogosphere tour. Hits the nail right on the head on so many levels, and highlights why even getting Labour out will matter little for this country in the long run – it’s the EU we need to look at. The linked articles within the piece are worth a look too. Scary scary stuff.

Why compete with America? Why do we have to try and create another superpower? What possible good will it achieve to create and a large, inefficient welfare state blinded by the twin fallacies of peaceful multiculturalism/dialogue/co-existence and the new environmentalist creed (and yes, I now will only refer to Environmentalism as a religion since it has fully adopted all the trappings)? Is this not the sort of post-colonial reduced power and influence angst that the UK all too often gets labeled with, but whose true standard bearers are, and always have been, the French? A Federalized EU with power to “compete on the world stage with America and China” would be a paper tiger, ruled by an optimistic oligarchy of internationalists who believe that diplomacy and dialogue can always achieve the desired solution and who will doubtless cluster around spewing surprise and apologism when the fruits of their naiveity and complacency are harvested, be that harvest of Chinese, Korean, Iranian or Islamic origin.

I think the comments are also spot on ref the dangers of Islam – why compete with the one power willing and able to preserve the institutions of Western Civilization and Culture against the insidious presence of the “Religion of Peace”? The Yanks are not perfect – far from it. Even less perfect now under the Sainted One than they were under that illiterate imbecilic cowboy in my opinion, but come on – we have far more in common, historically, socially, culturally, financially, legally, and militarily than we have with most European countries – the US is not the enemy. This smacks of European snobbery and jealousy towards the US yet again at a time when we need them as an ally way more than we need an ineffective European Superstate that, even if it was a homogenized Federal entity, would not begin to approach the military and security strength of the US – strength that we desperately need if we don’t want to see Helmand in Hampshire.

Obviously, I do not think that war is the best answer, and should certainly not be the first solution looked for, but it is an inalienable part of the human state of being, and no amount of hand wringing and social engineering is going to change that. War happens – and for us to have any real expectations of being able to survive a proper one of any type, we need to be partners to the US, not setting up something to compete against them…

Gaaaaa so frustrated at the world and everything this morning. How long does it take to process papers to Canada again? I don’t know how practical and desirable it will be living in the province of Europe formally known as the United Kingdom in years to come, over taxed, under-protected, Islamified, and force fed a social and environmental agenda that I find insane on so many levels. I know Canada is heading in this direction too, but its doing it slowly enough that they might just be able to pull back from the brink before its too late…