THE WORLD’S OLDEST WAR
[This Monday’s Archive was first in TTP on September 23, 2016. Obama’s execrable 8 years were finally coming to an end, and the Dems losing their minds over the possibility of Trump. Ten years later, again finally, both Europe and America are done with the world’s oldest war, with scores of mosques in Texas and an Islamofascist from Uganda running New York, with mass patriot protests all over Europe, now, against the Moslem invasion of their countries and the governments that allowed it. This time, at last, it’s time to finish the job.]
TTP, September 23, 2016
Vienna, Austria. This is a particularly apt place to discuss the world’s oldest war. It’s been continuously running for almost 14 centuries, and it’s getting worse today.
First, however, let us note that Vienna has more history, beauty, charm, class, and friendly people than just about any city in Europe. It leaves Paris in the dust.
Just one example. Vienna was founded by the Romans as Vindobona in 15 BC on the south bank of the Danube. On March 17, 180 AD, Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius was in his ornate tent in the center of the Vindobona fortress, having just won a victory over marauding Germanic tribes.
For many centuries, the street in Vienna along the traditional location of that tent has been called Schwertgasse – Sword Street. That’s because on that day in 180, the Emperor’s son, Commodus, murdered his father with a sword thrust. In the movie, Gladiator, Commodus smothers him – but nonetheless, the movie depicts real history.
Aurelius to this day is revered by Austrians. That’s why there’s a huge statue of him in the courtyard of the Hapsburg Palace or Hofburg in the center of Vienna.
For the next thousand years, the people south of the Danube adopted and lived by Christianity, oblivious to the war that had emerged in the Middle East, Asia Minor, North Africa, and Spain between their fellow Christians and people calling themselves Moslems.
I have written about this issue before, but with the midterms approaching, I thought it bears repeating. It’s so very, very important.
I think after 60 years of affirmative action, DEI, racial essentialism, and racial fixation—especially in the United States, but also throughout the Western world, in Europe, Australia, and the former British Commonwealth—we are seeing the consequences.
Two theologies of work built two different worlds. One tends what it inherits. The other consumes it and moves on. The qanats of Persia tell you which is which.
Where do we find the energy to achieve big, long-term goals?
WORLD — Citizens across the globe breathed a collective sigh of relief after learning that the government of Iran has promised to be good from here on out as part of the peace deal negotiated by President Donald Trump.
