Victor Hanson writes:
In short, as a reaction to the self-destruction of Europe in World War II and the twin monsters of fascism and Communism, Europeans thought they could change human nature through the creation of an all-caring, all-wise European Union über-citizen. Instead of dealing with human sins, European wise men of the last half-century have simply declared them passé.I've never fully bought into the idea that Europe has had violence bred out of them. They have a long history that says otherwise, and our current era that provided the hot house to support the strange, delicate, plant of European passivity is ending.
But human-driven history is now roaring back with a fury in Europe — from Mediterranean insolvency to the threat of radical Islam, to demographic decline, to new international dangers on the horizon.
We shall discover that Europe is not from Venus--Europe was just vacationing there for a while.