[Noumenon]

We're on the verge of throwing our own civilization away. This is one of history's great watershed moments. And as Harris points out, it is the decisions - or lack of them - made by individual men that determine the rise and fall of of cultures and civilizations.

In other words, it is up to us - it always was.

[backhoe]

We're on the verge of throwing our own civilization away. This is one of history's great watershed moments.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.
-Ronald Reagan 40th president of US (1911 - 2004)

Indeed.

[Jack Black]

Our biggest problem are the enemy within. In the 60s they sided with the world Soviet effort and helped our enemies defeat us in Vietnam. In the 80s they sided with the softer Socialist movement, advocating nuclear freeze and Sandinista control of central America. In the 90s they have abetted a huge immigrant invasion of the USA. Throughout the entire period they have relentlessly hammered away at the core values of our civilization and sought to replace our core ethical and knowledge traditions with strange leftist cant.

The AQ threat is not seen as a threat by a large portion of our population because they are not part of our civilization. They are outsiders, barbarians inside the gates. They are the enemy within.

Even if AQ is not totally successful it's unclear we will survive the contining 'velvet revolution' of the left.