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September 11, 2015
Bin Laden knew that the weakness of the West lay,
not in it’s armed forces, technology or economy, but in the alienation of its own elites.Attempting to explain the complete capitulation of the Western decision makers to the refugee flood rushing at their borders Peggy Noonan notes in her Wall Street Journal article that the political and cultural elites no longer even regard territorial integrity as an existential issue. It was something well enough to have, but certainly nothing worth defending to the point of inconvenience; and most assuredly not unto the death. Like the barons of yesteryear, they were secure in castles rising above the squalid countryside, safe from pestilence, hunger and even war. Noonan describes the modern aristocracy as a law unto themselves, living in a world unto itself, with more in common with foreign princes, other elite classes than with the commoners who surround them. Prediction From the Grave | Belmont Club
Posted by gerardvanderleun at September 11, 2015 8:46 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.