The Destruction of Western Civilization...

There were probably a few moments before the fall of the Roman Empire when some citizens of Rome realized what they were up against in terms of the Vandals, Goths, Huns, etc. and there was probably a chance to save it. However, they were most likely castigated by those who thought that the status quo was fine or that "Rome couldn't fall" or something like that.

I fear we may be in a similar time in the history of the United States. Believe me, I hope we're not, but the signs are weighing heavily on me.

There are 3 major concerns

1. There is a portion of our society which doesn't recognize that the US/Western civilization is in a war for its very existence with Islamo-fascists. If you don't recognize this, you're not going to be motivated to do much about it.

2. There is a portion of our society that-through moral relativism/equivalency-has abandoned the moral highground; that Democracy/Freedom, etc. are RIGHT and GOOD and dictatorships/fascism is WRONG and EVIL; that there is NO negotiation with the forces of EVIL and that they must be destroyed.

You want an epic struggle of good vs. evil? Forget Lord of the Rings or Chronicles of Narnia, you've got one playing out on your TV screen everyday and I'll tell you something...Hezbollah/Syria/Hamas/Iran is not the force of GOOD.

Bush/Rice et. al. get this. If Kerry were pres now, it'd be a disaster.

3. And in the cruelest irony of all, we're paying for both sides of the war.

As oil prices go up, we pay more to our enemies, which makes the need to destroy them even greater...which raises oil prices. I do feel that Bush has let us down in this respect. We need a Manhattan Project for alternative energy and we need it now! Gal Luft has been shouting this for a long time...more people need to listen.

If the stakes weren't so high (a nuclear Iran and our very existence), the attitude of the Left and the bulk of CNN/MSNBC commentators would be highly amusing.