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As seen on New Sisyphus: EU observers return to reopen Rafah European monitors said they were reopening the Rafah border crossing Friday afternoon, hours after a group of angry Palestinian police forced them to close the border and flee. Apparently the European Union Observers who were sent to monitor the Gaza-Egypt border crossing were French. But seriously, how pathetic has Europe become, when they cannot even maintain the security of a border crossing? The problem with Europe is that in it's own pacifistic socialist vision, they forgot that pacifism requires that all of mankind has evolved beyond the need for violence--because violence triumphs all. This is why we need police officers who are armed, and standing armies who are battle-ready: because the entire world is not evolved beyond threatening to kill the EU observers, strapping dynamite on themselves and blowing up a bus full of children, or flying airplanes into tall buildings to kill everyone inside. It goes back to the fundamental difference between the Left and the Right: the Left believes that mankind can and will eventually evolve beyond the need for violence and threatening observers with death--and so, to cure the middle east, it's just a matter of sitting down and listening to everyone's grievances and performing conflict resolution and compromise. To the Right, this is patently absurd: so long as someone has a gun and is willing to threaten you, you'd better have a gun yourself. The Europeans have forgotten this simple reality--or at least forgotten to factor it into their thinking--which is why they had to flee to an Israeli Defense Force base, rather than being able to provide for their own defense. This all reminds me of an old joke: Q: "How many French men does it take to defend Paris?" A: "We don't know: it's never been tried." posted by William Woody at 10:05 AM  
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