posted on the NY Times forum in response to David Brooks' "Fear and Rejection" column of June 2, 2005( http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/02/opinion/02brooks.html:
chinshihtang - 7:29 PM ET June 2, 2005 (#32665 of 32691) Stultifying conservatism
Brooks seems to be correct in the sense that the result of liberalism is "stultifying conservatism". That's what we have here in the post-liberal USA.
His column has scarily little about what was actually in the EU constitution that was rejected. I have heard that it was a 200-page document, which is not a good sign. We can infer a variety of things from the rejection of the proposed constitution, but apparently little about the constitution itself.
I would agree that perhaps Turkey is "a bridge too far" for Europeans; perhaps their economies are stagnant (as is ours) despite whatever may have been done by the EU, and particularly by the individual French and Dutch governments. I find it extremely farfetched to draw any American conclusions from the results, except for the "blunt and obvious" one that building one nation out of many independent states is quite difficult, particularly gaining approval for such a blueprint. We had our own experience with that some 200+ years ago.
I wish the Europeans both luck and success with their very difficult enterprise.
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