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Whenever I read about the European response to the current wave of “migrants” to Europe, one of the first questions that comes to mind is, “Why?”

Why do so many of the countries of Western Europe appear determined to hasten the end of their own national identity by refusing to draw any meaningful limits to the current influx of third-world “refugees”—a significant number of whom are probably not bona fide refugees, and a much smaller but still-worrisome number of whom are probably jihadis bent on the destruction of their new host countries?

This puzzling behavior on the part of so many Western European leaders has many possible overlapping explanations. The first reason for their response is almost certainly economic. Traditional European populations are failing to reproduce themselves, and many European leaders feel they must import newcomers, particularly newcomers who might be willing to work jobs that otherwise might go unfilled....

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/why-...de_1041317.html

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Great questions and no real answers.

The answer was provided in 1964.

James Burnham's Suicide of the West: An Essay on the Meaning and Destiny of Liberalism

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James Burnham’s 1964 classic, Suicide of the West, remains a startling account on the nature of the modern era. It offers a profound, in depth analysis of what is happening in the world today by putting into focus the intangible, often vague doctrine of American liberalism. It parallels the loosely defined liberal ideology rampant in American government and institutions, with the flow, ebb, growth, climax and the eventual decline and death of both ancient and modern civilizations.

Its author maintains that western suicidal tendencies lie not so much in the lack of resources or military power, but through an erosion of intellectual, moral, and spiritual factors abundant in modern western society and the mainstay of liberal psychology.

Devastating in its relentless dissection of the liberal syndrome, this book will lead many liberals to painful self-examination, buttress the thinking conservative’s viewpoint, and incite others, no doubt, to infuriation. None can ignore it

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This synopsis focuses on the American Liberal mind set, but the situation is and has been even worse in Western Europe.

Thanks, Cincy. I'll look for the book.

Quote: Sanguine wrote in post #3

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Thanks, Cincy. I'll look for the book.

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