ex cathedra: Machiavelli vs Sweet Reason

Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Machiavelli vs Sweet Reason

In response to my (too rational) surprise about the EU wanting to enclose unhappy Serbs within the new state of Kosovo, this:

Anonymous said...
"This mania for trapping hostile groups within the same political entity escapes Ex Cathedra."
A machiavellian perspective could be that the Prince wants the Hatfields and McCoys focusing their energies against each other rather than against the Prince.
--Nathan

Hmm. Good point.

Given Europe's 20th century experience with wars, could it be that, consciously or unconsciously, they much prefer states who are too pre-occupied with internal strife to gather up the common energy to attack another state?

Does this somewhat explain the European mania for importing problematic Third Worlders into their formerly White and bellicose corner of the world?

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2 comments:

Unknown said...: You see this? I thought it would take much longer for this shit to start popping up um in the military, especially the army..

"This story follows another from last week in which a U.S. Army training instructor listed Evangelical Christianity, Catholicism and even "Islamophobia" as examples of "religious extremism" during a training brief."

http://news.yahoo.com/army-email-allegedly-labels-christian-organizations-oppose-gay-214417183.html; 9:39 PM, April 10, 2013
OreamnosAmericanus said...: I like the part about "Army Values."
Reminds me of Reb Rahm's touting of "Chicago Values" to keep Chick Fil A out of his town.; 7:57 AM, April 11, 2013

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