Courtesy of Real Clear Politics

Courtesy of Real Clear Politics and the New York Post, here is Daniel Pipes on “why Europe balks.” Pipes borrows from an essay in the Weekly Standard by Yale professor David Gelernter, who finds that the former Western Europe, forged by World War II, has been replaced by the Old Europe of post-World War I vintage. Pipes agrees with Gelernter that 1920s-style self-hatred is now a dominant force in Europe, and that appeasement fits this mood perfectly, “having grown over the decades into a worldview that teaches the blood-guilt of Western man, the moral bankruptcy of the West, and the outrageousness of Western civilizaion’s attempting to impose its values on anyone else.”