I adore Croatia. I have a good friend there, and he never shuts up about how beautiful it is there. Cro Cop is my favorite MMA guy. My smallest pistol is a Croatian-made Springfield Arms imported XD-S 9 (3.3) and I adore it, too.
One of my favorite stories about Croatia, related to me by my friend Marko, concerns the butt of many Croatian jokes, the country of Slovenia. Slovenia shares a border with Croatia. Slovenia is regarded as backward by Croatians, a small country abhorred by other small countries as a kind of tawdry Exit 93 before you get to wherever you’re going.
Marko said that some time ago, tensions between Slovenia and Croatia were high, perhaps concerning NATO membership, EU / Euro concerns, who knows? The Slovenian military was assembled along the border of Croatia, and began maneuvering ostentatiously, driving armored vehicles this way and that in front of the cameras of both nations. The Croatian populace, particularly those along the northern border, wanted the government to respond, and yet the government was loath to escalate a situation high negatives and virtually no positives. As a Nash equilibrium problem, you would figure the Slovenians would just go home. But the pressure mounted, and so the government of Croatia, with a highly trained, combat proven military force at sea, on the ground and in the air — sent the fire department.
Fire trucks from border towns went to border crossings and ostentatiously unrolled their hoses and soaked random shrubbery for the cameras of both countries, and the Slovenians packed it in.
That bit of creative genius makes the following bit of news just that much more disappointing:
Riot police had to stand aside after being overwhelmed by the numbers, most of whom had passed through Serbia from the Hungarian border.
Yesterday, the Croatian government said it would allow all migrants free passage through the country and strongly criticised the Hungarian government for closing their border. However, Croatia’s Interior Minister has now admitted they “cannot receive any more people” as authorities struggle to cope with the huge influx.
That’s right, Croatia got up on their high horse about Hungary’s bborder closure, and declared that anybody who wanted could march right through Croatia. Twenty-four hours later, they’re closing the border. Of all the places in that bent-up corner of the world, I would have expected Croatia to man up and defend their borders. Slovakia, I understand, has ZERO mosques. I guess we’ll see hos that work out.
A country needs a border, a border needs defense, and defense requires a plan, practice, and stout hearts. I can even sympathize a little with those blind souls who do not see this as an existential struggle I understand why they do not feel the need to defend anything Either they do not value what we have, or they do not feel it is threatened, so I understand their shortcoming. But I will not forgive those who see the threat and shrink from saying what needs to be said — that we must do what needs to be done. As long as all these borders go undefended, so long as hordes feel empowered, entitled, welcome to simply swarm over the meager “defenses” offered, this problem will just get worse. it’s not as though the source is getting any better, and it is certainly NOT confined to Syrians.
Western Civilization is losing the fight of its life. One necessary step among others is to actively defend threatened borders. This is an invasion, and those besieged are within their rights to defend their borders with the force of arms. I didn’t say “kill them all”, I said defend your borders. That should not be controversial.
No, indeed! Nor should an attempt to regulate migration/facilitate assimilation – wherever one happens to be. Does Mr. Perry’s exit from our Presidential circus reflect a lack of concern re: his signature issue?…Egads!
No, Nanda. There is no “assimilation” These are rogue muslims, trying to overwhelm yet another geographis area. They should be made to feel UNWELCOME. They should be herded onto ships and sent back.
Call me hard-hearted, but I have no sympathy for these people. They are what they are. They are NOT entitled to go where ever they wish and overrun where ever they want. Let them stay in syria (or where ever they are from. It seems an awful lot are NOT Syrians.)
I don’t disagree, Dev; I meant that – as a matter of course, as a general rule – assimilation should be a focus of successful immigration. It shouldn’t be viewed as a ‘tool of oppression’ out of hand. I understand that this tidal wave/tsunami of young, male Muslim migration must be stemmed and reversed (if the Western world is to survive). We are, indeed, behaving like the frog in warm water, right enough. I don’t like the idea of “compassion” being used to short-circuit prudent caution. That’s what I was getting at earlier.
The whole concept of assimilation being a “tool of oppression” is SO wrong-headed, I can’t even concieve of it. It is a classical comment of Lefties, who find ANYTHING a nation does to support its traditions and culture “oppressive”.
In fact, the only “oppression” here is the Left. If people DON’T want to assimilate, then why the heck did they come in the first place.