Will the West survive?
By Dr. Walter E. Williams

Posted: June 23, 2004
1:00 a.m. Eastern

2004 WorldNetDaily.com

The Muslim world is at war with Western Civilization. We have the military
might to thwart them. The question is: Do we have the intelligence to recognize
the attack and the will to defend ourselves from annihilation?

History never repeats itself exactly, but we might benefit from the knowledge
of factors leading to the decline of past great civilizations. Rome was one of
those advanced civilizations. Rome was so caught up in "bread and circuses" and
moral decline that it couldn't manage to defend itself from invading barbaric
hordes who ultimately plunged Europe into the Dark Ages. The sooner we
recognize the West is in a war for survival, the more likely we'll be able to
escape the fate that befell the Roman Empire.