[Ohioan]

I believe that both European nations and America lack their traditional moral fibre to defend their ongoing heritages. The debate over Iraq only masks the real issue. (And I am not evading the debate over Iraq. I feel that we won a quick impressive victory, for which our Defense Department deserves high praise. I also believe that our drawn out presence in Iraq is the wrong tactic--the totally wrong tactic--in the War on Terror.)

But the real issue in the West is that we have allowed a combination of Leftist theorists and spoiled airheads to denigrate the historic progression of generations in our various ethnic heritages. In Europe, the justification for the EU is complex, but in elevating an abstraction over a thousand years of history, it has destroyed the concept by which the manhood of each generation, measures their mettle against that of preceding generations. But much the same process has taken place in America, with the embrasure of diversity as a positive moral good.

One of the clearest examples of the breakdown in moral fibre, connected with a downplaying of ancestral identifications, came in what happened in the throes of the great drive to integrate school populations, both North & South in the late 1950s through the 1960s. The illegitimacy rates in both races exploded. Since this time period also corresponded with enormous advances in the availability of contraceptives, it is difficult to ignore the obvious relationship between breaking down the sense of community identification in each race, and the breakdown in family structure.

Just some random thoughts.

William Flax Return Of The Gods Web Site

[Mister Baredog]

I also believe that our drawn out presence in Iraq is the wrong tactic--the totally wrong tactic--in the War on Terror.)

slightly overstated considering we still have troops in Germany and Japan, it is important that we complete the job

On your larger point I hear you can see the minarets popping up all over major European cities, some day soon Europe will be the front line in this war.

[mrustow]

Your thoughts are intriguing, but I see the illegitimacy explosion as having been caused by the welfare revolution. Communists from the National Welfare Rights Organization in local governments such as New York (John Lindsay's welfare commissioner was the NWRO's Mitchell "Come and Get It" Ginsberg) told unwed, black working mothers that they no longer needed to work, and should instead apply for then high welfare rates. Prior to that, simply being a single mother did not automatically entitle one to welfare.