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Submitted by Rudy Oetting, Nov 15, 2006 16:03

Mr. Pipes' summary and the book are both outstanding (though, based on his disagreement with MS's conclusions I would like to read his ideas on how Western Europe and Canada can avoid the pit they appear to be sliding into ).

A worry I have, with MS's conclusions about the reality of US military strength is dealt with in the book "AWOL: The Unexcused Absence of America's Upper Classes from Military Service" by Roth -Duquet and Schaeffer e.g. 56% of the graduating classes of Harvard and Princeton served in the 50's...it's less than 1% today with no ROTC allowed in all but one of the Ivy League schools. I believe it is one of the major symptoms, among several, potentially underlying the US's gradual mimicing of WE. Highly trained, specialized and excellently lead troops on the ground and politicians who themselves have served are essential to success in what is aleady the fifth year of "the long WWIII". That will take a will I don't feel.

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Seriously, I've read some bizarre articles in my time, but blaming the welfare state for "feminizing males" - does Daniel... [MORE]	Stuart	Jan 18, 2007 03:22
Europe is stronger than Steyn's words suggest. Direct military confrontation is precisely the wrong way to defeat Islamism, since it... [MORE]	Andy Ross	Nov 20, 2006 16:34
Andy Ross so childishly says "..cut off funds to Arab extremists by moving to nuclear power in a big way... [MORE]	Saeedmisbah	Dec 2, 2007 10:57
Dan Pipes rather delicately omits the beefier segment of Steyn's action plan to avoid Islamofascist creep: strike militarily as the... [MORE]	Frank P	Nov 20, 2006 07:36
Ever see or hear a man on the street survey? Ever watch American television? Ever visit the average American school... [MORE]	Mark R,	Nov 16, 2006 23:00
I have been fortunate to have an old friend living in Brussels and in the last ten years have been... [MORE]	keith bryer	Nov 16, 2006 06:57
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I think the first strike might be from the Religion of Peace. Then, what do we do? That also might... [MORE]	Joy D. B.	Nov 24, 2006 05:26
Mr. Pipes' summary and the book are both outstanding (though, based on his disagreement with MS's conclusions I would like...	Rudy Oetting	Nov 15, 2006 16:03
Seth missed the point altogether. It's not whether of not you have lots of immigrants; it's whether these immigrants think... [MORE]	Rick Bonsteel	Nov 15, 2006 10:49
The analysis is spot on. As is Mark's analysis of what is going on in the Western world today. The... [MORE]	John	Nov 16, 2006 05:39
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The birthrate for all european women is some 1.4 child per woman - if you exclude immigrants the net birthrate... [MORE]	Per Ericsson	Nov 16, 2006 11:23
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This is a brilliant summation of a book I have just read and I must admit that my own experience... [MORE]	Jeannie L'Esperance	Nov 14, 2006 13:09
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