Tom Tancredo Quotes
To the Left, Islam, like the rest of the 'Third World,' is one of the many victims of Western Imperialism.
Tancredo, Tom. "The Left's Blind Spot on Islam." Breitbart, Breitbart News Network, 18 Nov. 2015.
The reason that his quotation is memorable is that it illustrates how rapidly political norms can change. Here in 1872, there was general agreement that imperialism was undesirable. By the turn of the century—only 27 years later, imperialism would be the accepted foreign policy of the United States with only a minority holding to is undesirability such as Mark Twain and his Anti-Imperialist League.
There are many who disagree with Say’s claim that the ancient system of colonization produced more friends then the system was at the beginning f the 19th century. Alexander the Great may have been the only large conqueror in world history where the conquered people thought they were better off than before. Certainly the Romans did not make friends, and the French Normans who conquered England were never considered “friends” by the Saxons.
He was President of the European Parliament at the time he gave this interview. . The “Demons” to which he referred were the hyper nationalism and constant warring that plagued Europe culminating in the German Nazi conquest and near success. The European Community had presided over a longer period of European peace than ever existed before in the last millennium of World history.
Thomas Gerard Tancredo is an American politician from Colorado, who represented the state's sixth congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1999 to 2009 as a Republican. He ran for President of the United States during the 2008 election, and was the Constitution Party's unsuccessful nominee for Governor of Colorado in 2010.
