EUROPE STARTING TO TILT TO THE RIGHT!
52-year-old conservative Nicolas Sarkozy won the most recent election for President of France. A record-breaking 84.6% of France’s 44.5 million registered voters cast ballots and Sarkozy captured 31.1%. He scored a significant victory with a 54% to 46% margin over Ségolene Royal, the Socialist candidate.
Although a member of the same Union for a Popular Movement that produced current President Jacques Chirac, Sarkozy is expected to bring France into a much friendlier relationship with the United States. You won’t see French troops fighting alongside Americans and English in Iraq, but you can expect greater cooperation in our efforts to curb Iran’s nuclear weapons program.-
Germany, which took a decidedly hostile position toward the U.S. under Chancellor Gerhard Schroder, elected Angela Merkel as its new leader in 2005. She came out in favor of the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, describing it as “unavoidable”, and has been characterized by her opponents as “an American lackey”.
The conservative trend in both France and Germany suggests that President Bush’s foreign policies have not alienated our allies to the extent that congressional Democrats have charged. Slowly but surely, our allies seem to be coming to a realization that the President's concern about the dangers of international Muslim extremism is warranted. Europeans are becoming increasing worried of their own Muslim population now estimated at between 15 and 20 million. This was an unintended consequence of some post-World War II “guest-worker” programs intended to help Europe rebuild from the war’s devistation. The programs were supposed to be temporary, but the “guests” never left. In fact, they have taken advantage of family reunification programs which have enabled them to bring their relatives to their European homes. Muslims now make up nearly 5% of Europe’s total population. France has the largest (7-10%), followed by the Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, the United Kingdom and Italy. Given continued immigration and high Muslim fertility rates, their population throughout Europe is expected to double by 2025.
Jihadist networks extend from Poland to Portugal and terrorist acts have already been experienced in Spain, France, England, Holland and Denmark. (By contrast, there are no more than 3 million Muslims I nthe U.S. – less than 2% of our population.)
Of enormous concern to our Department of Homeland Security is passport-carrying, via-exempt mujahideen coming into our country from our western European allies. There is also an obvious parallel between the consequences of Europe’s “guest-worker” programs and our problems with (and some proposed solutions to) illegal immigration.
April 23, 2007
Although a member of the same Union for a Popular Movement that produced current President Jacques Chirac, Sarkozy is expected to bring France into a much friendlier relationship with the United States. You won’t see French troops fighting alongside Americans and English in Iraq, but you can expect greater cooperation in our efforts to curb Iran’s nuclear weapons program.-
Germany, which took a decidedly hostile position toward the U.S. under Chancellor Gerhard Schroder, elected Angela Merkel as its new leader in 2005. She came out in favor of the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, describing it as “unavoidable”, and has been characterized by her opponents as “an American lackey”.
The conservative trend in both France and Germany suggests that President Bush’s foreign policies have not alienated our allies to the extent that congressional Democrats have charged. Slowly but surely, our allies seem to be coming to a realization that the President's concern about the dangers of international Muslim extremism is warranted. Europeans are becoming increasing worried of their own Muslim population now estimated at between 15 and 20 million. This was an unintended consequence of some post-World War II “guest-worker” programs intended to help Europe rebuild from the war’s devistation. The programs were supposed to be temporary, but the “guests” never left. In fact, they have taken advantage of family reunification programs which have enabled them to bring their relatives to their European homes. Muslims now make up nearly 5% of Europe’s total population. France has the largest (7-10%), followed by the Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, the United Kingdom and Italy. Given continued immigration and high Muslim fertility rates, their population throughout Europe is expected to double by 2025.
Jihadist networks extend from Poland to Portugal and terrorist acts have already been experienced in Spain, France, England, Holland and Denmark. (By contrast, there are no more than 3 million Muslims I nthe U.S. – less than 2% of our population.)
Of enormous concern to our Department of Homeland Security is passport-carrying, via-exempt mujahideen coming into our country from our western European allies. There is also an obvious parallel between the consequences of Europe’s “guest-worker” programs and our problems with (and some proposed solutions to) illegal immigration.
April 23, 2007
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