the Centrist

Right after we worshipped and gave thanks to our Creator this past Thanksgiving, I felt we next owed a collective show of appreciation to our military and leadership for taking the fight to the terrorists on their land instead of ours. America’s unique aspect of pluralism or our ‘melting pot’ should be equally given credit for allowing its proper response to these mutant Islamists. America’s reaction is in stark contrast to that of Europe. Since Thanksgiving stresses a harvest celebration, cuisines seem appropriate to explain the difference in our societies. America is a ‘stew society’, while Europe is a ‘soup society’. A stew allows each individual ingredient to keeps all of its distinctiveness … its tastes and texture are not lost, yet when joined with other ingredients it becomes unique … just as in America’s ‘stew society’ … collectively (races, religions, and ethnicity) they are ‘better’. On the other hand a soup homogenizes its ingredients. Each ingredient loses its individuality, its own taste and texture, for the good of the broth. The broth, in effect, imposes its new taste and texture on the individual, rather than vice versa.
Europe’s soupy socialists deem themselves more sophisticated than other societies. They conclude they are more ‘evolved’ and as such know what is best for our world. With their collective scholarly heads in the air and eyes fixed firmly on the clouds they refuse to see things as they are … rather they see things as they think they should be. They no longer are able to distinguish danger … because they are not able to see it. Unlike ‘stewy America’ where it is easier to see a bad guy because one can still ‘taste’ a rotten ingredient … in ‘soupy Europe’ it is much more difficult … after all they are all part of the ‘human broth’.
Holland has, more than any other country in Europe, epitomized this soup. It is a Godless materialistic socialized utopia which has attempted to follow political correctness to a fault. In this Dutch paradigm prostitution, drugs, and suicide have been legalized. The only thing one never does in this nation is to criticize another’s values or beliefs … unless those values are Christian or Jewish. The Dutch have politically corrected their society to the point of a negative birthrate and self extinction within the next 20 or so years.
Enter Mohammed B. He had been a social worker from a wealthy middle class family, who until the death of his mother, epitomized ‘Dutch soup’. After her death he became depressed and joined an Islamic cult. He was taught that there is a third cuisine… a ‘root’ society. In the root society he learned to impose it’s values on others … ‘for their own good’. Theo van Gogh was the young artist who felt the wrath of Mohammed B’s new education. His art was deemed insulting to Islam, and so his work of an angel and scroll stating:“Do not kill”, was censured. Yet that was not enough for this ‘root society’, in this world view the infidel must be punished. Thus, Mohammed B made his radical statement and punctuated it in blood. Poor Theo became the sacrificial lamb, the murder weapon pinned a note to the dead artist’s chest. The note in effect said, ‘don’t try to make either soup or stew out of us … we insist on our own roots … dirt and all.’
Is it any wonder our European idealists are confused? To add insult to injury Spain joins the fray by discovering that there are several cells of these radical humans in their country and throughout Europe. Notwithstanding they stress the fight in Iraq has nothing to do with global terrorism … yet Spain’s terrorists may have spawned not only those who ‘convinced’ Spain to withdraw from Iraq via the train bombings, but also those responsible for the outrage in Holland. Holland responded by immediately arresting7 more of the terrorists. Nevertheless the soupy society was outraged … after all, how could any refuse to blend? Unlike their ‘stewy’ American cousins who properly delegated their outrage and response to their military, in the Netherlands they have taken to the streets and attacked individual mosques and Moslems. The ‘root people’, not to be out done, have responded in like manner and anarchy reins in ‘Paradise’. On this Thanksgiving as Americans gives thanks … if one listens very closely, over the din in the streets of Europe, one can hear the erudite moaning … “Can’t we all, can’t we all … just become soup?”