Police: Student spoke of attacks before Sept. 11

History tells us that Islam vs. the West, of Islam vs. Christianity, East vs. West, Oriental vs. occidental---that these opposing forces and civilizations (possibly the wrong word since those people are far from civilized) are the yin and yang, the two dichotomies that ultimately define the fate of mankind. Myopically, we who are alive today in the West overlook the fact that the 20th century, after the defeat of the Ottoman turks, was just a short historical lapse in the march of Islam beginning in the 7th century to conquer and annihalate everyone else on the planet.

I make one exception, however to this: the paradigm of east vs. west is probably eclipsed by---

PC vs. survival. Or perhaps, PC vs. freedom.

Political correctness is going to destroy this nation. Nations don't last forever. Liberals don't know or care anything about history. That the US would SURVIVE would be an anomoly in history. Nations fall. Political correctness demands that we NOT take the actions required for self-preservation; political correctness militates that we TAKE actions that will doom us.

It wouldn't take much in the way of additional attacks to put this economy---and the world economy---into severe depression.

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