[Stoat]

It wasn't so long ago that for a time Britain stood alone against the forces of darkness.

Quite true, and I hope and pray that such a dark time never happens again.  All of Western culture is under assault not only from the Left but from the Islamofascists as well; and the case could be made that they are working together on many levels.

Those of us who value Western culture must stand together in order to weather this storm.

[colorado tanker]

Even before 9-11 I agreed with Jacques Barzun that our Western Civilization was in a advanced state of decay, a victim of some of the very forces that originally gave it such vitality. Militant Islam is taking full advantage of our weakness, but I'm not convinced it will provide the next great civilization; in fact I'm pretty well convinced it can't and won't. But we are in for a very turbulent time, just as was the world of 1500, when this glorious civilization was being born.