The Duck and the Chicken

[unhappycamper]

http://watchingamerica.com/WA/2015/09/08/the-duck-and-the-chicken/

It is difficult to believe that a homogeneous and compassionate, cosmopolitan and prosperous Europe will emerge out of all of this in the future when new immigrants are arriving at a time in which the extreme right and fascism are on the rise.

The Duck and the Chicken
Published in Jornal do Brasil (Brazil) on 03 Sep 2015 by Mauro Santayana [link to original]
Translated from Portuguese by Bryce Bray. Edited by Helaine Schweitzer.
Posted on September 8, 2015.

Although they don’t admit it (mainly the countries that participated in the bloody stupidity), the Europe of today, which has never before been besieged by so many foreigners, at least since the fall of Rome and the Barbarian invasions, is not reaping more than it sowed when it supported American interventionist policies in the Middle East and North Africa.

If it hadn’t helped to invade, destroy and vilify countries like Iraq, Libya and Syria; if it hadn’t equipped terrorists with weapons and vehicles by using its spy agencies, which in turn gave rise to the Islamic State so that these terrorists would fight Gadhafi and Bashar Assad; if it hadn’t helped to create the enormous allure of the Arab Spring, promising peace, liberty and prosperity, to which it afterwards only contributed hunger, destruction and war, rape, disease, in the desert sands, among the rocks of the mountains, in the depths and dark tomb of the Mediterranean, Europe would not now be immersed in the largest humanitarian crisis of this century, comparable only in recent history to the great human migrations that took place at the end of World War II.

Cheerful and sweet, the United States, which bears most of the responsibility for the situation, is even considering receiving a portion –and this surely must be at the Europeans’ insistence—of the hundreds of thousands of refugees that the U.S. created with its disastrous and stupid doctrine of the “war on terror;” the doctrine which paradoxically replaced stable governments with terrorists, and which was inaugurated by the “junior” Bush after the controversial attack on the twin towers.

Once the immigrants are distributed in ghettos or at least some of them are integrated into the countries that take them in as part of a long and painful process that will likely take decades, Europe will no longer be the same.

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I still wake up with this picture burned into my brain:



Original photo taken by Pulitzer Prize winning photographer, Nick Ut, on June 8, 1972. Kim Phúc, center. Her brother is the boy on the left.

[bemildred]

1. Ouch.

I am in awe of this guys writing.

[MisterP]

2. so the main narrative being used by this piece is that the far right will win people over,

and even radicalize some in a new generation of refugees who’ve never been home and have been raised on only stories of how the Europe that’s picking on them has screwed over their homeland

but another possibility is that the far right remains overwhelmingly rejected--and that makes it violent against the traitorous sheep who don't see the newcomers as a problem that must be extinguished in foreign blood

one's Farage, the other Breivik