Why the Left Ignores the Call for a Second Holocaust is an interesting read that goes beyond the Left and the Holocaust, providing lessons perhaps for our near-term future:
… the West certainly is like ancient Rome. If you want to call us an “empire,” fine. But remember why the Roman empire actually fell, who was responsible for it, and what Western civilization endured as a result. Barbarian hordes — who were far less advanced — sacked Rome and plunged Europe into centuries of darkness.
If we are Rome then Islamofascism is the barbarian at the gate. And just because we are more advanced technologically it’s no reason to think we are invincible. History clearly demonstrates otherwise. Brains will not save us. As the great Howard Bloom wrote in his must-read first book The Lucifer Principle,
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The Islamofascists are not the first barbarians to expose and exploit the recent diseases of the West, but the second. They only got their head when the first threat ended, temporarily, in 1988.