It's the Demography, Stupid The real reason the West is in danger of extinction.

Opinion Journal ^ | January 4, 2006 | MARK STEYN

[Toaster tank]

Most people reading this have strong stomachs, so let me lay it out as baldly as I can: Much of what we loosely call the Western world will not survive this century, and much of it will effectively disappear within our lifetimes

[Toaster tank]

If you'll fall for anything, you'll stand for nothing.

[marvlus]

Later Read.

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[raybbr]

Then September 11 happened. And bizarrely the reaction of just about every prominent Western leader was to visit a mosque: President Bush did, the prince of Wales did, the prime minister of the United Kingdom did, the prime minister of Canada did . . . The premier of Ontario didn't, and so 20 Muslim community leaders had a big summit to denounce him for failing to visit a mosque.

Typical of succumbing to political correctness.

[SittinYonder]

Maybe there was a big backlog, it was mosque drive time, prime ministers in gridlock up and down the freeway trying to get to the Sword of the Infidel-Slayer Mosque on Elm Street.

ROFLOL ... This column is well worth reading.

[SMARTY]

'That's what the war's about: our lack of civilizational confidence'

So, Spengler was right after all. Didn't he say that culture is the debased form of civilization? Do we have one debased culture squaring off with another debased culture here?

Anyway, like the man said, '...it all comes down to blood and money in the end..'

[Toaster tank]

The impending death of western civilation nicely summed up.

[wita]

I thought it was good vs eeeeevil.

[Vaquero]

perhaps if the western leaders had visited destruction upon Mosques then the message would have secured the peace.

In the Gulf war...Gulf war 2....Afghanistan...it was an imperative to avoid destroying mosque....

This false, patently rabid religion respects power and destruction....and we are too timid to survive and they know it.

[edcoil]

Liberals destroyed the west becuase they created the belief that we needed to water the weeds.

[wita]

The first commandment, multiply and replenish the earth. The muslims are obeying, everyone else is neglecting, and if the neglect continues, the results are explained quite nicely by Mark.

[Neville72]

An interesting read....Steyn always is but his thesis rests on current birh rates and current life expectancy.

Life expectancy will see a radical transformation upward in the next 20-30 years which will ameliorate the problem Steyn ponders.

[vimto]

The demographics of extinction - totally agree with your assessment.

I read recently that mohammed (the worlds favorite peadophile) took Mecca without a shot being fired.

Tell you what - in the UK we are ready to surrender our culture. Guess that goes for most of Europe too...it is truly pathetic to see us giving in without a fight.

Our new conservative party is probably left of your democrats (not true, but it's a close run thing). We have been robbed of choice. The only ones to benefit will be the muslims and (in the short term) our neofascist parties.

Not good, not good at all.

[showme_the_Glory]

but I agree Britney Spears dresses like a slut: I'm with Mullah Omar on that one. ..... LMAO

[litehaus]

"Liberals destroyed the west becuase they created the belief that we needed to water the weeds."......I like that, but it sure shows my/your bias toward certain of our fellow beings.....and a real lack of the classic-- I feel your pain....;^)

[Rebelbase]

Time to read Parkinson's East and West again.

[ncountylee]

Bookmarked.

[wita]

Not so! Had you read one of his other articles explaining how difficult it might be for an older population to effectively fight a younger population you would understand, but then possibly I'm missing your point.

How would a greater life expectancy not effect both populations and thus be a wash in the numbers game where birth rate and survival rate at birth and the first 10 yrs or so be the controlling statistics.

If all Muslim children could become homicide bombers that might help, or half of them became crispy critters, or the other half had a Christian epiphany, then, maybe.

[SMARTY]

We have departed from the historically and practically demonstrated goal of military conflict: "Defeat equals destruction." Now, defeat equals reward from the victor and sympathy from the victor's enemies. It has become an inverted equation.

[T. Jefferson]

I read recently that mohammed (the worlds favorite peadophile) took Mecca without a shot being fired.

Reagan defeated the Soviet Union without a shot.