November 8, 2005

With Friends Like These...

Hatched by Dafydd

Reading about the arrests of seventeen terrorist suspects in Australia -- suspects who appeared on the verge of executing massive bombings of the train system there until Prime Minister John Howard pushed sweeping anti-terrorism detention and investigation laws through parliament and used them to break up the plot -- I was struck by the concluding sentence of the AP story.

After discussing the plot and the arrests, Mike Corder's story ends on the familiar-to-the-point-of-satire dodge of the terrorism apologists:

Opponents say Howard's strong support for the U.S.-led strikes on Iraq and decision to send troops there and to Afghanistan have made it inevitable Australia will be attacked.

I find this claim increasingly surreal... given this, the other big international story of the last two weeks!

The French must be thinking, With friends like these....

Hatched by Dafydd on this day, November 8, 2005, at the time of 2:17 PM

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The following hissed in response by: jackal

When will they (the MSM) ever get it? Ugh...

The above hissed in response by: jackal [TypeKey Profile Page] at November 8, 2005 3:56 PM

The following hissed in response by: RBMN

Maybe the radical Islamic immigrants in France, Germany, Australia, etc. will settle for a "two-state" solution, for the time being. I'm sure that anti-war (pro-surrender) politicians everywhere will be happy to oblige, even if the conservatives will not.

The above hissed in response by: RBMN [TypeKey Profile Page] at November 8, 2005 4:26 PM

The following hissed in response by: KarmiCommunist

The French must be thinking, With friends like these....

The French have made their beds...now, lets see if they can sleep in them.

From George Friedman of STRATFOR - "A Question of Integration":

It is not coincidental, therefore, that the rates of immigration to European states are rather low in comparison to those of the more dynamic settler-based states. This also places the Europeans at a serious economic disadvantage to the immigrant-based societies. The United States or Canada can mitigate the effects of population shortages with relative ease. The influx of new workers relieves labor market pressures -- encouraging sustained low-inflation economic growth -- and the relative youth of immigrants not only allows for steady population growth but also helps to keep pension outlays manageable. In contrast, the European ideal of nationality almost eliminates this failsafe -- so that while, as a whole, Europe's population is both aging and shrinking, the dearth of young immigrant workers spins its pension commitments out of control.

These are the issues that, over the next few generations, may begin to define the real global divide -- which will be not only between rich and poor nations, but between the rich nations that cannot cope with declining populations and the rich nations that can.

Expecting a pension in and from France??? Good luck...

The above hissed in response by: KarmiCommunist [TypeKey Profile Page] at November 8, 2005 5:35 PM

The following hissed in response by: Dan Kauffman

France in Flames
Words fail to give an adequate picture of the present days in France, but this Map despite the fact that it is without doubt dated at this time, does reveal what the media has clouded with smoke and mirrors.
France in Flames

The above hissed in response by: Dan Kauffman [TypeKey Profile Page] at November 9, 2005 12:08 AM

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