Remember, remember
Screw the Norwegian national holiday of May 17, which is essentially about eating ice cream, howling hooray and holding hypocritical speeches about the value of cultural diversity. Tomorrow we celebrate Liberation Day in Europe. History may be bunk, as some pundit once said, but the Second World War (WWII) is still good material. Even in the tabloids, which means that one of the papers' elderly writers is allowed to write his (her? maybe someday) reflection on Hitler and the Third Reich.
We can't remember it all. Uncle Sam has, wisely or not, spent most of his European goodwill after WWII. Great Britain is hardly as great as it used to be. The French are still French, so in some ways we're back to where we were before the world wars. Except for globalisation, economic interdepence and all that. Anti-Americanism in Europe may be the largest threat to European re-ascendancy to the geopolitical stage. The first NATO Secretary General Lord Ismay's aphorism "NATO was created to keep the Russians out, the Germans down and the Americans in" is temporarily outdated, but who knows? In politically slightly uncorrect words, the red menace is replaced by the yellow. The West will again find back to its common ground.
Stream of consciousness is an inadequate tool for intellectual reasoning. This seems to be the only lesson from today's column.
We can't remember it all. Uncle Sam has, wisely or not, spent most of his European goodwill after WWII. Great Britain is hardly as great as it used to be. The French are still French, so in some ways we're back to where we were before the world wars. Except for globalisation, economic interdepence and all that. Anti-Americanism in Europe may be the largest threat to European re-ascendancy to the geopolitical stage. The first NATO Secretary General Lord Ismay's aphorism "NATO was created to keep the Russians out, the Germans down and the Americans in" is temporarily outdated, but who knows? In politically slightly uncorrect words, the red menace is replaced by the yellow. The West will again find back to its common ground.
Stream of consciousness is an inadequate tool for intellectual reasoning. This seems to be the only lesson from today's column.
posted by Yngvason at 2:55 pm
2 Comments:
Your rhetorics are certainly more impressive than your ability at political analysis. And the choice of language, which make me feel obliged to post my comment in the same, is outragous!
My analytical skills are admittedly deeply flawed. But as for the essay in question, I feel it is quite spot-on.
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