Very interesting.

EU needs to do is grant admittance to Turkey.

Bene qui conjiciet, vatem hunc perhibebo optimum!

I am not impressed in this Euro-skeptic view of absolutism that would bury the healthy and strong before they are either diseased and or remotely dead. Leaving the world, as if the burial has already occurred, no alternative, but either to accept a death and burial unseen and unnoticed by the pronounced dead. But for in this opined Euro-speak that says in implication none can resist this false-bottomed new superpower, this dispersed grouping of all-powerful terrorist from around the world.

Thusly, in the effervesce of Euro-speak, for the dead to be effectual, it has no alternative, but to rely on the most Schadenfreude narcissistic of all, this evolved Euro-me-ism as the last and only hope to stop this new superpower. A power which by their actions alone, they, these Euro-skeptics, fear and presume, in this Euro-speak relativism, of ignore and talk, as if it will, in reason, bring less attention from this faux power of barbarous intent, this new superpower they assume is in the tent.

In an offering to the dead and buried, they see only an alliance, already existing, but sundered, lost in euro-speak, as the only alternative. As if these Euro-skeptics have not shown, in their clear preferences, of see all and be all seat-of-the-pants sermonizing.

Proclaiming to all from this blind man's manse of Euro-skeptic necessity, they, see nor hear, no evil, thus, there is no evil. Thus the dead and buried, as the last resort, must turn to them, as the only alternative, but for whose last resort, is the question.

For in them, are the very refuse of this relativist me-ism that so sophisticatedly and narcissistically threats a nation, they undeservingly, yet sadly, wish to set asunder in demean and one legged impugn. As if its death is imminent and ordained. A nation and system, far from dead, nor defeated, except from within, as this spreading virus of Euro-me-ism tries its invasive, demure of uninvolved skepticism on a nation of hope standing for all. Yet, already buried, as if standing against hope, for all.

Our Euro-skeptic may be right or may be wrong, as many obituary prognosticators like him have so often been. Yet, the death and burial of the United States, will not go, as implied, as a mere whimper of silence on a vast Irish bog, but as a loud asunder of well noted demise, felt by many and perhaps all, in the emptiness of a vast void left to a competitive and perhaps deadly abyss that will follow.

We are afar from the best, nor unflawed nor the most saintly, as a nation, yet, more adjacent to most of these, than the beasts that will replace us in our eradication for which some have assumed as so imminent and having already occurred

It's my opinion that the EU is not ready or willing to be a Superpower. To be a superpower, you need to actually stand for something, some ideal, that makes a superpower what it is. The USSR, right or wrong, had communism, the US has democracy/human rights and capitalism. The EU has.... Much like China, it has growing economic might but that's about it. Economics alone does not a superpower make. Unfortunately, the dispersed group of terrorists actually does have an ideal. For good or bad, the US has one voice (the president) that has one position on policy. The EU has a bunch of presidents with their own needs and agendas - but trying to act as one. France's outlook on things is different than Britain's. The EU setup itself just does not lend itself to being a superpower.

Western civilizations and values = underage sex, incest, drinking, doing drugs, lying, cheating and stealing, 60% divorce rates, extremely high STDs infection rates, and the list goes on and on and on. When was the last time you examined carefully and thoroughly of your western civilizations and values? You must have watched too many Hollywood movies. Have you ever been to Japan? Do you really think Japanese think highly of your civilizations and values. Japanese despite you and they would destroy your values if they get a chance. Japanese don't like westerners; they just wanted to milk their money, that's all.

The American era in the Middle East (ME) is not ending, but American influence declines as the American share of the global wealth declines. Notably, Chinese influence will increase in the ME as the Chinese economy increases its share of the global wealth. Moreover, the Chinese magnify their influence by ignoring the state of human rights in the ME.

Brutal governments in Sudan, Iran, and the like enthusiastically look forward to business deals with Beijing because the Chinese deliberately ignore the cries of victims tortured to death by these governments. The Chinese view these victims as disposable trash.

www.economist.com/world/asia/displaystory.cfm?story_id=E1_VQNVSPD

You can see the icy Chinese indifference to human rights by just examining how the Chinese actually assist Pyongyang to brutally torture and kill North-Korean refugees.

theclearsky.blogspot.com/#116274437809631696

This attitude of indifference toward human rights is widespread in Chinese society. For example, people who identify with Chinese culture are over-represented in the colleges of engineering and business at American universities. Yet, at those same universities, people who identify with Chinese culture are under-represented in the meetings of the local college chapter of Amnesty International.

The best way to deal with Chinese influence (fueled by the incredible wealth generated by the huge Chinese population) is to spread Western values and to grow Western civilization. We Westerners should encourage Japan, Australia, and New Zealand to build the Asia Pacific Union (APU), modeled after the European Union and NATO.

theclearsky.blogspot.com/#116046305894729134

Like the EU, the APU shall spread Western values throughout Southeast Asia. The aim is to ensure that the combined populations of all the nations identifying with Western civilization will be sufficiently large to generate adequate wealth to counter Chinese influence.

In addition to growing Western civilization, we Westerners should also deliberately avoid assisting China when the victims of human-rights abuses (committed by brutal governments supported by China) take charge of their lives and retaliate. In this case, retaliation is justice. The victims will likely initiate large-scale violence in China itself. Who can blame these victims? In Darfur, they watched helplessly while militias (backed by the Sudanese government, which is funded by Chinese money) beat the victims' children to death.

By the way, the above comments about China also appy to India. India is a democracy, but its people are not Westerners. The Indians oppose Western values. They have vehemently rejected the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT) and have aggressively developed nuclear weapons. New Delhi gave Washington an ultimatum: the Indians will support the strategic American objectives of promoting democracy and human rights if and only if Washington (1) gives nuclear technology to India and (2) agrees to greatly increase the number of Indian laborers (in the form of H-1B workers) that are allowed to enter the United States. Washington agreed to the terms of the ultimatum. The Americans will now violate the NPT (which Washington signed) by giving nuclear technology to India: catering to Indian ruthlessness drastically undermines American attempts to prevent the Iranians from developing a nuclear bomb.

theclearsky.blogspot.com/#115967192466858300

Like the Turks, the Indians reject Western values and shove themselves and their issues into Western society.

The EU's fecklessness when confronted with the Yugoslavian crisis of the 1990's, combined with the failure by France and the Netherlands (and the UK, if given the chance) to ratify the EU Constitution, puts lie to Mikos Vamos's foolish words. The the other superpower who will fill the vaccuum in the middle east will clearly be China.