European Socialist Utopias

If they only knew how they manage to survive... they would surely keel over if they realized it was America's "fault."

The great unspoken truth? Somewhere right now, a US ship, an American soldier, a circling F-16 keep the Russians honest, the fear in al Qaeda, the Straits of Hormuz open, the commerce of the Mediterranean safe–unknown, unappreciated to the mass of European utopian citizenry—whose cultural ancestry made us Americans what we are.

—Victor Davis Hanson, Euroamericans? Is That What We Aspire To?

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