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Well IG, you have made quite a find digging up Dr. Hanson. He is one of my favourite academics in a strange twist of fate. I may not always agree with his conclusions but I respect the man as he is rooted in the reality of the present day with an eye towards the future, all viewed with a firm understanding of the past. Farmers are funny that way.
I do agree with his assessment of Europe and I would go one further that I think the doomsday scenario is unavoidable. Europe will succumb to the Islamic world. I see this as a swinging of the pendulum back from the oppression of the middle east by western colonial powers to one where now the power and wealth from oil is wielded against the western powers so inextricably linked to its consumption. I also fear there is something of a collective guilty conscience among the ruling liberal elite of europe and their supporters that bear too much shame over sins of their forefathers rendering them unable to stand up for fear of being called to task as yet another generation of oppressors. This culture of appeasement is intractable and I view this as a done deal, the die has been cast and nothing can stop it. In fact it would not surprise me in the least that in thirty years when reading a history of Europe to come across a passage saying that this assimilation into the grip of Middle Eastern powers was by this date in the present a fait accompli.
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