Is Belgium Breaking Up?
Another Buchanan gem.
"All politics are local, said "Tip" O'Neill.
Not so. It is more true to say that all politics are tribal.
For the 1991 prediction of Arthur Schlesinger--"Ethnic and racial conflict, it now seems evident, will soon replace the conflict of ideologies as the explosive issue of our time"-- has proven prophetic.
As Schlesinger was writing, the Soviet Union, a prison house of nations held together by the ideology of Marxism-Leninism, the Red Army, the KGB and the Communist Party, was disintegrating. Out of its carcass came 15 nations. Causes of secession: ethnicity and culture.
At the same time, Yugoslavia crumbled. Slovenes and Croats broke free of Belgrade, and Bosnia was beset by a civil-sectarian war of Croats, Serbs and Muslims. Macedonia seceded, then Montenegro. Now Kosovo, cradle of the Orthodox Serb people, but 90 percent Albanian and Muslim, is moving toward secession.
Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union came apart, after becoming free, confirming what my late friend Sam Francis said: Multiracial, multiethnic, multilingual countries are held together either by an authoritarian regime or an ethnocultural core--as the English have held the United Kingdom together--or they come apart. "
Everyone knows this - including anti-European bigots. And that is why they are shoving immigration down our throats.
http://www.vdare.com/buchanan/070927_belgium.htm
"All politics are local, said "Tip" O'Neill.
Not so. It is more true to say that all politics are tribal.
For the 1991 prediction of Arthur Schlesinger--"Ethnic and racial conflict, it now seems evident, will soon replace the conflict of ideologies as the explosive issue of our time"-- has proven prophetic.
As Schlesinger was writing, the Soviet Union, a prison house of nations held together by the ideology of Marxism-Leninism, the Red Army, the KGB and the Communist Party, was disintegrating. Out of its carcass came 15 nations. Causes of secession: ethnicity and culture.
At the same time, Yugoslavia crumbled. Slovenes and Croats broke free of Belgrade, and Bosnia was beset by a civil-sectarian war of Croats, Serbs and Muslims. Macedonia seceded, then Montenegro. Now Kosovo, cradle of the Orthodox Serb people, but 90 percent Albanian and Muslim, is moving toward secession.
Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union came apart, after becoming free, confirming what my late friend Sam Francis said: Multiracial, multiethnic, multilingual countries are held together either by an authoritarian regime or an ethnocultural core--as the English have held the United Kingdom together--or they come apart. "
Everyone knows this - including anti-European bigots. And that is why they are shoving immigration down our throats.
http://www.vdare.com/buchanan/070927_belgium.htm
Labels: Belgium, Pat Buchanan, tribal
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