[DuncanWaring]

...I feel in my bones that the current skirmishes with Islam are just the beginnings of an all out war such as the world has never seen before. Billions will die and civilization as we know it will be changed forever.

Something like that described by The Time Traveler?

[Leg Olam]

Thanks for the link. I seem to remember reading that before. Very thought provoking.

“your love of your own exalted sensibilities and your willingness to enter into a global war for civilizational survival even while you are too timid, too fearful . . . too decent . . . to match the ruthlessness of your enemies.”