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By: Daan

Daan — Sun, 16 Jul 2006 04:17:38 +0000

The few people that died in Europe due to terrorism doesn’t make me afraid, also the crime rate doesn’t concern me at all. These are minor issues compared to the economic transition of Europe. I think that these two themes will hardly have any significance in the coming elections this year in my country, the Netherlands. I have heard stories about the Second World War and what happened in my family. Compared to that, terrorism and crime are insignificant. what does concern me is my paycheck and the wealth of my family and friends or of the people in the town where i live. I don’t understand why America is spoiling all this money and energy in minor issues. I’ll begone now. Goodbye everybody.

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Sun, 16 Jul 2006 03:49:57 +0000

Adam’s argument assumes that someone like Adam can tell a credible source from an incredible source. He cannot. Therefore his logic fails, and hence his argument is rendered invalid.

This is why scholars always argue and take so long to come to a conclusion, they “always” disagree on what is “credible”. But scientists at least can experiment to get the same or different results. Can we experiment to see if Europe’s model gets higher crime than America’s model?

Lucy, the American people have beliefs and positions independent of the White House thinks they know or thinks we know.

Military philosophers and military science students already know that Iran, Syria, terroists, etc are all inter-related in Iraq much as gravity, electromagnetism, etc is related via force equations in physics.

We cannot make you understand the connections. You’ll have to spend about 5 years learning military science to be able to figure out what is what. It took me approximately that long after 9/11. And I had no prejudices hindering me. It will probably take you longer. I started by reading military history, going all the way back to ancient Greece and Sparta, and reading David Weber and John Ringo.

By: Adam

Adam — Sun, 16 Jul 2006 00:46:37 +0000

Funny, the article mentioned by Bowden does not provide or mention any actual sources for its figures. Further, it’s an article published in “The Weekly Standard”, right-wing ideologue William Kristol’s conservative magazine. Why should any figures it quotes be taken at face value, if it refuses to back it up with sources? (The standards for right-wing journalism seem shockingly low indeed — I thought it used to be taught in Journalism 101 courses that you have to provide sources and attribution for what you report!)

By: J. H. Bowden

J. H. Bowden — Sat, 15 Jul 2006 23:00:27 +0000

Daan — Europe is one of the safest places in the world?

I don’t think so. America now generally has lower rates of crime than Europe in all categories save homicide, but Europe is even gaining on us in that respect as our crime rates continue to plummet and theirs continue to skyrocket.

A Continent of Broken Windows

excerpt:

“The latest figures, scattered from 2000 to 2005, suggest that more assaults are committed per capita in England than in America, while Swedes, Norwegians, and Dutch experience roughly the same assault rates as Americans. Robberies (which involve force or the threat of force) are as common in England and the Netherlands as in the United States. Theft rates have surged ahead of the United States in Britain, Denmark, France, Germany, and Norway. Separately, auto thefts are now a European specialty, with Scandinavians, Brits, French, and Italians worse off than Americans. And the U.S. burglary rate is now lower than those in Sweden, Denmark, Germany, and Britain.”

By: Lucy

Lucy — Sat, 15 Jul 2006 22:03:45 +0000

Tatterdemalian:
Actually it did occur to me that they may all be contributing to the instability but it obviously never occurred to someone up the chain of command because, as in the Iraq War build up, the reasons why keep falling by the wayside and new ones have to be thought up or it is just coincedence that it was Saddams supporters when trying to deny the influx of foreign fighters into Iraq then Iran meddling when the topic was Iran’s Nuclear facilites and Syria when it’s Hizbullah. All were unrelated of course and they all would of been mentioned together at the begining but we know what it’s like, the White House has been pretty busy lately and they just forgot maybe.

By: harry mallory

harry mallory — Sat, 15 Jul 2006 19:53:53 +0000

Daan:
“Europe has atomic bombs. Internally, there are hardly any threats and externally also. Europe is one of the safest places on earth and i have great confidence that i don’t have to worry at all about losing democracy.”

You mean France has nukes, none of which prevented over a hundred stright days of ethnic rioting. Nor does the mere presence of France’s nukes sufficient to protect your film makers, writers and government officials (especially in your country) from murder and assassination.

By: Daan

Daan — Sat, 15 Jul 2006 16:50:39 +0000

Everybody will become poor, with this amount of people in the world. I know that in your country, there are more then 100,000,000 million people homeless with hardly anything to eat. I don’t want Europe to become the same. We already have to abandon our welfare state to compete. I don’t think it will be enough. The present government of my country, the Netherlands tries to make the strongest economy of Europe so we can be the New York of Europe. A rich country surrounded by poor countries. In Germany there are politicians who say that the poor people should be given up. Result: the socialists win the elections.

By: Vivek

Vivek — Sat, 15 Jul 2006 15:08:40 +0000

Daan, you wrote:

“The thing that concerns me most is the loss of wealth to China and India and the annoyance that the Indian population is growing rapidly.”

Can you explain why you are concerned and annoyed about this? I would like to know. (I’m Indian by the way).

By: Daan

Daan — Sat, 15 Jul 2006 13:58:25 +0000

To Peden,

Did you know that words could be used to describe the reality? Maybe this is something you would like to try. It could help you in your life. Not that it matters, people can repeat self-deceit untill death. Death seems to be something you are preoccupied with.

Regarding Kyoto: It can’t be implemented. China, India and Latin America want to become as rich as us and the west is not prepared to give up wealth. So, we will all quickly finish all natural resources. Instead of reducing the production of goods, it would be better to spend lots of efforts in new technologies, something only Japan and South Korea seem to understand.

To Mallory,

Europe has atomic bombs. Internally, there are hardly any threats and externally also. Europe is one of the safest places on earth and i have great confidence that i don’t have to worry at all about losing democracy. The thing that concerns me most is the loss of wealth to China and India and the annoyance that the Indian population is growing rapidly. My opinion about America is that it is unrealistic. America is fighting something unimportant, but perhaps it is ‘the American way of life.’ Just fighting to have something to fight.