Thursday, March 1, 2012

History Never Quite Ends

By Victor Davis Hanson

The European Union and the United Nations, as well as globalization and advanced technology, were supposed to trump age-old cultural, geographical, and national differences and bring people together.

But for all the high-tech veneer of the 21st century, the world still looks very much as it did during the previous hundred years and well before that.

After the Greek financial meltdown and the emergence of German financial dominance, Europe once more obsesses over the so-called German problem. Should Europeans admire the industry of the German people, or fear that such competency and drive will eventually translate — as in 1870, 1914, and 1939 — into German political and military supremacy?

Read more: http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/292303/history-never-quite-ends-victor-davis-hanson

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