Up, up, Buttercup.

Many years ago, the Colonel visited Point Lookout in Maryland, where there is an obelisk erected in memory of the Confederate soldiers who died as prisoners of war in the Union prison camp there. (We tried to visit some of the remaining prisoners there but couldn't get past the gate guard.)

As we read the names and units of the men, we envied them their freedom to make a leisurely assessment of the danger to them and make a decision about how they would respond. This was still in the time of the Cold War with only a 20-minute ballistic missile flight time from the Soviet Union -- which allows only a somewhat abbreviated (and limited) assessment of one's survival options.^[1]

Today communism is not dead and the long-term danger of a revived and militarized China is not clear. Much ink will be spilled on that issue. (J.R. Nyquist's piece, The fatal Befuddlement, is a good start if you want to read about this issue.)

Nonetheless, the immediate threat of the Soviet Union has been replaced by the more insidious danger of cultural and demographic suffocation at the hands of Mohammedanism and the forces working in favor of complacency are as hard at work as before.

In his post referenced below, Fjordman mentions, among other things, the West's "sleepwalking middle class" and it remains to be seen whether Westerners will heed the tocsin that sounds every minute of the day in countless ways. Oriana Fallaci, in her "The Rage and the Pride, speaks of a Mr. Salvemini

who on the 7th of May 1933 speaks [in New York] against Hitler and Mussolini, shouting in despair [as he] addresses an audience that does not understand but will understand on the 7th of December 1941 . . . ."

Needless to say, Mr. Salvemini got nowhere.

Alas, given:

• the odious and obvious nature of our enemies and the threat they pose;
• the tepid response to that threat;^[2]
• the mind boggling unwillingness to close the U.S. border to illegal infiltration, let alone close off all Muslim immigration;
• the moronic treatment of Islam in the media;^[3] and
• the sinister ass kissing of the Saudis;^[4]

among other things, it is obvious that it isn't only Representative Patrick Kennedy who has trouble with his sleep meds.

Anyyyyyway, here is a disturbing extract from a hugely important piece by Fjordman, which does not at all allow anyone to entertain the option of business as usual:

If Muslim immigration continues, the impending fall of France could mark the starting point of the Balkanization of much of Europe, perhaps later even North America. I fear this is a world war. Maybe future historians will dub it the Multicultural World War. Just as WW1 was caused by Imperialism, WW2 by Fascism and the Cold War by Communism, this one will be caused by Multiculturalism. The term “the Multicultural World War” has been coined by Fjordman. I find this to be more accurate than “The Islamic World War” because what will cause this world war is Western cultural weakness, through Multiculturalism and Muslim immigration, rather than Islamic strength. ^[5] 

Notes
^[1]  It was also a time of legions of addled leftist intellectuals on the home front eager to do their utmost to obscure the realities of communism and lull their fellow citizens into complacency about the cancer of communism. We suppose we have to grant that intellectual opinion in the Confederacy was probably solidly on the side of war with the persons not wanting to rush to war being at a disadvantage. The aforementioned intellectual opinion was not wrong. This is only to say that in any age humans must swim against the tide to some degree or another with respect to various issues. The real issue is, of course, who is in the right, and 20th-century liberal intellectuals were decidedly wrong in what they concluded and advocated vis-a-vis the Soviet threat. Today's pantywaist, lickspittle pussy apologists for Islamic depredations and goals are also wrong.
^[2] Witness the baffling formulations of "religion of peace," "war on terror," and the "axis of evil," and the apparent nervousness of President Bush about letting the Israelis "get 'er done."
^[3] "A recent MSNBC program on the Beltway Snipers, John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo meticulously documented the killings and hunt for the snipers but did not mention one word of John Allen Muhammad's association with "Jamaat ul-Fuqra (Arabic for “community of the impoverished”), a terrorist organization founded by a notorious Pakistani cleric, Sheikh Mubarak Ali Gilani." For this, see "Jamaat ul-Fuqra in Virginia, Part 1 ." By Baron Bodissey, Gates of Vienna, 10/10/05. We did miss some portions of the program and will correct our assertion here if there was any mention of this association (or of his prior membership in the non-Islamic Nation of Islam) but we saw the end where one might expect a discussion of motive and the body of the program was a death-by-death account of the snipings and the fevership activities of the police to find the sniper(s) and their public statements as the crisis dragged on. If the same producers had made a film about D Day, we would have seen troops landing, cliffs being scaled, the Navy bombarding the German positions, supply ships supplying, and Channel storms storming without any mention of National Socialism. (Our Wikipedia reference above does mention the NOI connection but limits its speculation as to motive to Mr. Mohammed's possibly wanting to extort money from the U.S. government.)
^[4] "Black Gold." By Baron Bodissey, Gates of Vienna, 7/30/06. There's a very interesting discussion of the economics of oil in this great piece as well as an outstanding picture of a man at a gas pump, which you must check out.
^[5] "The Fall of France and the Multicultural World War." By Fjordman, 4/18/06.