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Politics : Is Secession Doable? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: tejek who wrote (1124)	11/13/2004 4:39:31 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1968

Re: Bush is the quintessential American..........its why he hates Europe so much. Europeans cause him feel uncomfortable. I think its hard for you Europeans to get this point. Oh, as far as I'm concerned, I'm well aware of the nature of the Transatlantic rift... Remember that I've compared it with the Byzantine-Latin Europe relationship in the Middle Ages. Today Europe is to the US what the Byzantine empire (today's Turkey) was to Latin Europe in the XIIth, XIIIth, XIVth and XVth centuries... Somehow, the US president is a modern-day Doge of Venice, the sea power at the time... Byzantine, Greek-speaking, elites were as contemptuous of their Latin counterparts as are today's EU elites of American "parvenus"... And remember that the crusades to recover the Holy Land were Latin endeavors: it was Latin European kings and knights who took the Cross to fight the Saracens, not Byzantine lords... The Templars, the Hospitallers, the Teutonic Order, all Latin European outfits... And just as today the US and Europe are challenging each other over their respective notions of Democracy, geopolitics, international cooperation --or the lack thereof-- so were Latin Europe and the Papacy at odds with Constantinople over Christianity... History merely repeats itself. Gus