(Hat tip to Cinnamon Stillwell)—Please do yourselves and your country a favor by reading this extremely well-written piece by brilliant National Post columnist George Jonas who asks: Will we become ‘Canarabia?’
A poet friend in Europe, who prefers to remain anonymous, sends me this postcard from Florence, Italy. (The English translation is my own.)
In European politics
people play for keeps.
What a bigger power sows,
a smaller power reaps.
Lawrence of Arabia’s dead.
Ah, but never mind,
in Florence of Eurabia
his legacy’s left behind.
A few day later, looking at a copy of Oriana Fallaci’s The Force of Reason, I come across this paragraph:
“In 1978, I remember it well, they were already occupying the Historical Centre of Florence. ‘But when did they get here?!?’ I asked the tobacconist of Piazza Repubblica where they assembled with particular delight. He spread his arms and sighed: ‘God knows. One morning I woke up and here they were.’ “
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