Ring Out the Old; Bring in the New; then the Old...

Solomon said that there is nothing new under the sun. He was right. Victor Davis Hanson gives us a look at the New/Old Europe, which really hasn't changed much over the last several hundred years. The rest of Europe is wooing Germany to pay the bills for the profligacy of its more undisciplined members and hoping that Germany doesn't go off the deep end again.

Perhaps the bigger variable this time is that Europe has let millions of Muslims into their countries. Combined with an abysmal birthrate among its natural born citizens, the future of Europe could be very different indeed. Then again, civilizations rising and falling isn't new under the sun either.

townhall.com/columnists/victordavishanson/2011/12/29/the_new_old_europe