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“We are not in competition with the kid on the next street, or the nation next door, or the race or religion along the way. Rather, we are in competition with ourselves. Our competition is between what we are, and what our best selves can be.” This is right.

There is something I want to emphasize, the french, the french system and France are three different things. Mostly the problem comes from the french system, something coming from the monarchic absolutism with a lack of freedom, a democracy that is not achieved. A leftist tradition to bash america, companies, business and now anything that represent the pace of the world economy. In addition to this the problem of immigration. A declining economy with a lot of unemployment far ahead of official figures. But it is official, a taste of constructivism. The future is impossible so “some” are trying cosmetology. But reality is reality.

I do not like cliche or stereotypes. Right now Europe, is sinking yes. The debate is about the past, the (grandeur) greatness. There is something wrong when people are more interested to speak of the past than of the next step. Sure I am not typically french. I read your blog!

As a matter of loyalty, I feel that our real friends in Eastern Europe deserves to come to America. Not the French. Personal debts of honor still matter to me, even if it does not to 90% of the rest of the world.

Besides, we have too many anti-American fake liberals already, we don’t need anymore from the bailing French. If they ain’t willing to fight for their country, they sure as heck won’t fight for ours.

“What about anti-Americanism?” I ask the waiter who was marrying an American girl and hoping to go to the States to start a restaurant.
“Oh, that was bad back at the time of the Iraq war, but no longer,” he said, with a reassuring confidence.

It reminded me of the remark that an FBI guy said to some scholars about the Waco catastrophe: “We didn’t do anything wrong, and we won’t do it again.” Except that this Gaulois who wanted to jump ship to America wasn’t even saying “We won’t do it again.” There was not even the admission that the wave of pro-Chirac anti-Americanism was a stupidity that hurt France. Just a promise that, right now, we don’t feel any anti-Americanism.

Ja, pull the other one. About as believalbe as Zarqawi saying he won’t kill you right now.

The Jews I meet with show heavy signs of wear. One of the sweetest and smartest of the French Jewish intellectuals I know, a woman of Tunisian origin, one of the single-generation acculturaters, comes towards me without knowing I see her. Her face is so drawn with care that I have difficulty identifying her. I go by her haircut, until, upon seeing me, her smile comes back and wipes away the lines of worry.

The Halimi Affair, whose Jewish and Muslim dimension the French Jews know about in much greater detail than their Christian and post-Christian fellow-citizens, has that community in a panic.

I’m sorry to say this, but the Jews have a learning problem. After what happened in WWII with the French betraying their French-Jews and trading Jew for Collaboration, you’d think the Jews would remember and hold a grudge with ruthless efficiency. But no. They still choose to live in France. It boggles my American mind.

We told ourselves, they’re unaware. If we can get them to look at this clearly, we can persuade them.

Don’t make me laugh. Relying upon dishonorable shits with one of the worst track records in history, is not wise.

I don’t like France, not because they are anti-American, but because they have no honor, no dignity, and no utility.

I feel more comraderie with the Japanese that America fought in WWII, than I would ever feel for the french.

“Since 9-11, there’s been a notable change in the Muslim community. Before you rarely heard Arabic spoken. Now they speak it loudly, the mothers aggressively take over areas in parks and gardens. They started to pick up their heads and feel pride.”
“Over 9-11?”
“Yes, it gave them a sense of power.”

There was a discussion going on in another post-comment about Belmont’s War to the Knife postulations.

This is a useful addendum. If 9/11 gave the Muslims in this world a sense of power, just imagine what a nuclear attack resulting in 500,000 casualties would do. Can we say world wide Muslim insurrection?

Richard Landes is a good source of amazing information, Neo, thanks for providing me with the opportunity to read him.

For one thing, because America is powerful and acts like it, France is a runty little jerkoff and acts like they are high class. There’s a difference.

We don’t want power, since all the power in the world is already at our fingertips. Unlike France, we don’t intimidate Eastern Europeans nations into shutting up because they disagree. Unlike France, we don’t grab colonies in Africa and participate in genocides like Rwanda because it’s a way to relive old victories.

France is everything America is not. France is weak, France is arrogant full of false pride in decadent customs. France is immoral. France is not only immoral, they are stupid and ignorant at the same time. All the names France and the French have called americans, is in reality the terms they wish someone would describe them as. They fear the image in the mirror, yet they cannot refrain from accusing us in the hopes that we will show them the truth of their false nationality.

To me, France, and Europe in general, is like a brillant and revered parent who is sinking into imbecility and pathetic helplessness. Heart breaking.

It’s a good thing I come from China, it gives me no emotional attachments to the French or to Europe.

We are one of the oldest democracies

Actually, we are the oldest representative democracy. You wouldn’t know that if you heard the French keep saying Americans were young and impulsive however. We’re not young, they’re young. We’re a lot more mature as a nation than France and Europe is. If America is a teenager that likes to win popularity contests, and Eastern Europe is a embryon about to be born as a baby, then France is an infant trying to stand up but failing to, so they cry cry and cry.

Our economy is robust and growing.

Our wines are also getting better because we can use genetically modified stuff and the French can’t. Boo hoo them. We won that International Wine Festival, just one year before 9/11 I believe. Boy, did that feel good to outstage the French.

The true solution is to realize self-respect has nothing to do with how you compare to others; and everything to do with how you compare with your best self. We are not in competition with the kid on the next street, or the nation next door, or the race or religion along the way. Rather, we are in competition with ourselves. Our competition is between what we are, and what our best selves can be. We can be satisfied if we are operating at a level which is near or at our best performance.

Good words, man, good words. A return to Aristotelian virtues, one for all, and all for me.

It is an ethos that emphasizes individual freedom, hard work, community, self-reliance, piety, and patriotism, and Christian virtues.

This must be why Germany is more economically vibrant than AMerica. Your theories lack something called verifiability, steve.

The only new idea to come out of 20th Century Europe was Naziism — a nihilistic spasm of rage from a beaten people. It echoes today in Islam.

I don’t know how to rekindle hope in Europe. The best they seem to be able to envision is stasis, and all that is giving them is death.

Canadians turn more sour on U.S.

The poll found that 69 per cent of Canadians believe Mr. Bush’s election was a bad thing, compared with 58 per cent who thought the same way right after he was given a second term. By contrast, 19 per cent think his election was positive, down seven points from November of 2004.

“We share a lot of real estate. We share a lot of common interests, we probably share a lot of common tastes, but we’re also pretty glad that we have a big fence,” he said.

I don’t see what the Irish added.

The problems in France are not caused by immigrants and the divide between red and blue states only exists in the media.

“sometimes in conflict with farmer etho’s…” Bullshit. Where do you live?

never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.