Does Germany's leadership class secretly want to destroy the European Union?
I'm beginning to wonder.
The news from Cologne, of the mass, semi-coordinated sexual assault of women revelers on New Year's Eve started dripping out on January 4 and 5.
And those first news stories, the ones that quoted the mayor of Cologne, or the ones that appeared in premier publications, like the The New York Times, had something strange in common.
They all framed the story in this way: Something regrettable happened in Cologne on New Year's Eve, and it could be really bad because it will cause people in Europe to think bad thoughts about immigrants, refugees, and migrants, or about the politicians who are committed to swelling their ranks in Europe.
The real scandal, it was implied, was not that these hundreds of allegedly North African and Arab men had groped, harassed, robbed, and raped women in the street.
Or that the police were inept or unwilling to stop it.
It was that this minority of a minority had, inadvertently, cooperated with the real evil stalking Europe: the populist backlash against mass immigration and its political enablers.
Less than a handful of the rapists have been arrested for the crimes they committed in the sight of police that night.
Europe's political class has already set about firmly scolding anyone who draws the wrong conclusions.
...It is hard not to notice that the European Union is failing in the tasks for which it was founded.
It was founded in the horror of the Holocaust.
And now its policy on migration is creating societies that are deeply hostile to Jews. And Jews have responded by evacuating Europe.
...If Europe begins to unravel in 2016, the proximate cause will have been the events in Cologne around midnight on Jan. 1.
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