The Decline and Fall of Western Civilization

Submitted by Darwin Barrett (United States), May 11, 2004 at 20:45

The Point of Samuel Huntington's book "The Clash of Civilizations...." is, there is a natural life cycle of civilizations, and a ton of evidence indicates Western Civilization is past it's prime. The world was polarized for decades by the cold war. In the background Islam achieved critical mass. One Fault line was Afghanistan. Using the brilliant strategy of "The enemy of my enemy is my friend" Islamic fault line warriors duped the US into helping them bring down the USSR. The breakup of the USSR was claimed as a victory by the West. Saddam sucked us into the 1991 war by attacking Kuwait. The "Northern aliance" sucked US into defeating the Taliban, and we are still there fighting an elusive enemy.

Ahmed Chalabi deceived US into taking down Saddam and that mess worsens every day. The predictable result of all this is the further decline of Western Civilization. They will continue to deceive us into attacking an unending list of enemies until we are bankrupt and/or lose the will to fight. It may take decades, maybe less. By the time they achieve that goal, there will be enough Muslims in Europe, India, Indonesia and Africa to seize control of those continents. North and South America are being pressured by Islam from within, but it will probably take an economic collapse and maybe civil wars to effect the transition to Islamic states. The goal of Islam is the elimination of the unbelievers. They now comprise one fifth of the world population. There are probably only 200-300 million militant fundamentalists, but the rest sincerely believe that an Islamic world would be a better place, and that any means to that end are justifiable. Pay close attention, you are witnessing the most important event in human history.

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