“Because it is my habit to ignore smelly foreigners (and let’s face it, they all stink)…” This is no way to talk about New Jerseyites.  And to be honest it’s only les Canadiens Quebecois that announce themselves downwind.  Many of the rest smell pretty much like actual white people.

Yep. Our allies. 

 About ten minutes after Britain demands we take about half of them on humanitarian grounds.

 Bob, they already have. See Dearborn MI, or just Google up “honor killing USA”.

too late — the organized crime element within the Somali community is particularly bad on this account

The problem is: the “extreme rightwing” of Europe does contain some really unsavory types (and so does their leftwing too).

They are horrible racists, bigots (both their right and left and all points inbetween), and general all around provincial troglodytes who still fantasize about the days of empire and conquest — and none of them are our “friends”, that includes Sarkozy (whenever any European politico of the “right” gets in trouble, it’s always good for Americans to repeat that — none of these people are our friends, none).  Their stupid EU was an effort to not just get on equal terms with America, but to supersede her.
They have always, always hated  and felt superior to the countries of the western hemisphere and especially the U.S. (for obvious reasons).  America especially can trust none of them.

I believe they actually thought they were taking the lessons from our federal system.  The euroweenies can’t seem to grasp that Europe is merely geography not culture. The French will never be as similar to Germans as Mississippians are to Mainians (?). Of course the Belgians are most similar to either the French or the Germans depending on whether the southern or western toll booths are doing the most business.

I think that both of you have parts of this right. 

Europe has always been competing on a “me versus you” basis, even with the EU in place.  They may eschew “nationalism” or “jingoism”, but nearly all of their problems seem to center on some form of tribalism.  Tribalism has much in common with racism (if not actually  the same), but can be much more subtle.  In that sense, a European nation is a “tribe of tribes”, the larger ones having more tribes.   Or, if you like, a bunch of cultures plopped down on one continent. 

(Yes, I am assuming “culture” = “tribe”.  Tribal leaders need not wear a head dress.)

For example, note that European countries have a real problem integrating immigrants into their populations.  There are higher legal and cultural barriers than here in the US.  Those immigrants, many of whom come from countries with active tribalism, start re-forming their tribes on European soil.  Which goes without much opposition from the native Euroweenies.  In part, because of the restrictive EU and national laws, but in part because they expect to see tribal behavior. 

The EU, in effect, is a “federation of tribes”, and it ain’t working because they took the moral high road, and formed yet another tribe to run the joint.  One that is not accountable for their actions, and is more interested in making everyone toe the line, i.e., socialism. 

Or so it seems to me. 

Tribalism is not the same as racism, Jews and Arabs are Semites. Culture does not=tribe in general and particularly the way I used it. One could substitute chauvinism for racism. When I used the word “culture” I meant not just ethnic but also historical, economic, social and national experience. Germans aren’t wrong when they think that they are better than Greeks or Italians. The Germans are much better at the attributes and activities the Germans care most about. It was often remarked that “at least Mussolini made the trains run on time.” The only truly remarkable aspect of that is that it had never been done before and it took a Mussolini to do it. Europe can never be “a society” anymore than the western world is.
 The varied nations of “Europe” never had a tradition of assimilation in the sense we have (had) and this is compounded by the fact that most the immigrants to Europe in the last 50 years brought their tribes with them. The unassimilated nationalities scattered about Europe from the “Volga Germans” in Russia to the “Balts” in Lithuania to the Basques in Spain have had separate identities for hundreds of years  It’s not surprising that foreigners as foreign as the Muslim immigrants aren’t assimilating.
Back to my main point it simply isn’t possible for there to be a united Europe it’s just a place not a people. The EU regime can’t change that even if it succeeds in it’s totalitarian designs.

I wish Sarko well and the FN offers real solutions to France’s life-threatening immigration overdose, trouble is tho the Front Nationale is more anti-NATO/American than Sarko, and more nationalist/protectionist/spendthrift economically… they’re really only conservative on cultural/immigration issues it seems to me.

Que the boss?

Mussolini never made the trains run on time. He made it illegal to notice that the train was late.