[goldstategop]

Good critique of Mark Steyn's book. We are engaged in a war with Islam that will last for centuries. The question is whether America is better prepared to survive than civilizations that preceded her. If not, we will go the way of the Eastern Romans when they fell to the Ottomans in 1453.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus

[TomSmedley]

We are engaged in a war with Islam that will last for centuries. The question is whether America is better prepared to survive than civilizations that preceded her. If not, we will go the way of the Eastern Romans when they fell to the Ottomans in 1453.

I grew up under the shadow of "The Bomb," in an era when "the smart people" sought prophylactic accommodations with the obvious fated winners in the cold war, the Soviets. Then, in a miracle of divine intervention, the red threat suddenly imploded.

I am praying for a similar dramatic end to the Islamic threat -- but am fully aware that America's official governing ideology, secular humanism, is equally an enemy of the Lord Jesus Christ, and equally due for an appointment with destiny.

Meanwhile, I know one lady who's studying Farsi, and a guy studying Turkish, with missionary aspirations.