{"id":20417,"date":"2016-05-05T05:23:44","date_gmt":"2016-05-05T10:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=20417"},"modified":"2016-05-05T05:24:07","modified_gmt":"2016-05-05T10:24:07","slug":"the-great-western-retreat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=20417","title":{"rendered":"The Great Western Retreat"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"print_content\">\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org\/7938\/western-retreat\">The Great Western Retreat<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"print_content_3\" class=\"article_body\">\n<div>\n<ul class=\"content_preface_bullets\">\n<li>Of all French soldiers currently engaged in military operations, half of them are deployed inside France. And half of those are assigned to protect 717 Jewish schools.<\/li>\n<li>This massive deployment of armed forces in our own cities is a departure from history. It is a moral disarmament, before a military one.<\/li>\n<li>Why does anyone choose to fight in a war? Civilized nations go to war so that members of today&#8217;s generation may sacrifice themselves to protect future generations. But if there are no future generations, there is no reason whatever for today&#8217;s young men to die in war. It is &#8220;demography, stupid.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"itemprop_articlebody\">\n<p>On March 11, 2004, 192 people were killed and 1,400 wounded in a series of terrorist attacks in Madrid. Three days later, Spain&#8217;s Socialist leader, Jos\u00e9 Luis Rodr\u00edguez Zapatero, was elected prime minister. Just 24 hours after being sworn in, Zapatero ordered Spanish troops to leave Iraq &#8220;as soon as possible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The directive was a monumental political victory for extremist Islam. Since then, Europe&#8217;s boots on the ground have not been dispatched outside Europe to fight jihadism; instead, they have been deployed inside the European countries to protect monuments and civilians.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2016\/apr\/15\/paris-attacks-operation-sentinelle-soldiers-patrolling-streets-france-safer\" target=\"_blank\">Op\u00e9ration Sentinelle<\/a>&#8221; is the first new large-scale military operation within France. The army is now protecting synagogues, art galleries, schools, newspapers, public offices and underground stations. Of all French soldiers currently engaged in military operations,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lopinion.fr\/blog\/secret-defense\/l-armee-protege-682-sites-territoire-national-22196\" target=\"_blank\">half of them<\/a>\u00a0are deployed inside France. And half of those are assigned to protect\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gouvernement.fr\/securite-interieure-mobilisation-sans-precedent-des-forces-armees\" target=\"_blank\">717 Jewish schools<\/a>. Meanwhile, French paralysis before ISIS is immortalized by the image of police running away from the office of the satirical magazine\u00a0<i>Charlie Hebdo<\/i>\u00a0during the massacre there.<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org\/pics\/1578.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" border=\"0\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>You can find the same figure in Italy: 11,000 Italian soldiers are currently engaged in military operations and more than half of them are used in operation &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/messaggeroveneto.gelocal.it\/udine\/cronaca\/2015\/12\/01\/news\/undicimila-uomini-tra-italia-ed-estero-1.12548932\" target=\"_blank\">Safe Streets<\/a>,&#8221; which, as its name reveals, keeps Italy&#8217;s cities safe. Italy&#8217;s army is also busy providing aid to migrants crossing the Mediterranean.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Great Western Retreat Of all French soldiers currently engaged in military operations, half of them are deployed inside France. And half of those are assigned to protect 717 Jewish schools. This massive deployment of armed forces in our own cities is a departure from history. It is a moral disarmament, before a military one. 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