I don’t always agree with what John Konrad says, but on this topic he’s spot-on:
Civilization is the ability to sustain itself. By that measure, Europe isn’t a civilization at all. It’s a dependency with better wine. That’s not a threat. I t’s a weather report. Build a Navy. Or don’t. But stop lecturing the people who made you “better than us”. Our “crudeness”, our “stunted liberal education”, our “ugly strip malls” are because we sacrificed our culture to support yours.
Read the whole thing, it’s worth it. The question is, though: how many Europeans are going to read it and wake up to its reality?