Reliving The Past

It appears that the elite in this country are partying like it's 1933.  Barack Obama is the incarnation of FDR, and like FDR he is trying to remake the country in his image.  Like the 1930s, the country is in economic meltdown, with signs of a sluggish recovery that will be strangled in its bed if the Democrats' spending isn't reversed.  We are facing turmoil in foreign lands, with mad dictators telling us what they're going to do to us--and again the world turns away hoping that it will all go away if they only just understand the grievances and give the man what he wants.  Russia aids and abets the turmoil while looking to carve a piece of the action for itself, but will find itself in the fire along with the rest.

The difference is that now we face a cultural religious war vice an ideological war (although some can argue that Japanese budo was a religious worship of the emperor, and the Nazi elite followed a corrupt form of occultism and paganism, convinced that God was on their side).  The culture we face now has been in conflict with the west for 2,500 years.  As noted by Jim Lacey in National Review Online and in his book The First Clash, Persia has been attacking Western civilizations long before Islam arrived in the world.  Where Islam made a difference was in fixating an entire culture at the 10-year-old level of emotional maturity.  Every adult "no" from the West (stop stoning women to death, stop mutilating their genitalia, stop subjugating other religions, etc.) is met with a juvenile tantrum, destruction, and killing.  Murdering Christians, Hindus, Ba'hais and destroying their churches and religiously significant artifacts is met with silence, while one idiot burning a Q'uran is met with over 300 murders and beheadings.

We face a culture determined to rule us, afraid to face us in an exchange of ideas, and willing to kill us for over 2,500 years.  Unfortunately, 20% to 40% of our population is more interested in blaming their own culture to avoid the reality facing them--as long as they can keep voting in the gravy train no matter the cost to others.

Winston Churchill faced the same dilemma we face now.  I suspect he wept as much then, too.