Posted by
Patrick Henry on Tuesday, December 30, 2008 8:11:07 PM
On December 29, the Wall Street Journal carried an article explaining the views of
noted Russian academic Igor Panarin. Among those views is one the professor has held
for at least a decade: that the USA will collapse in 2010. Ridiculous? On the surface yes,
but what lies beneath is more than a little unnerving.
Panarin is no crackpot. He is the dean of the Russian academy of foreign service, an
organization that trains future Russian diplomats, a former senior KGB analyst and a
current advisor to the Kremlin on Russian-U.S. relations. He is a keen student of
history, and without a doubt he believes in what he is saying.
The professor predicts that civil war will break out due to massive, uncontrolled
immigration, economic collapse and moral degradation, and that as the dollar collapses
the country will eventually split into six different nation states with Alaska reverting
to Russian control. As one looks at the great empire/state dynasties of history, it
would be a tough point to make that these factors did not contribute to their demise.
Massive, uncontrolled immigration already exists, and the new president's commitment
to amnesty and open borders only guarantees that it will build to critical mass. It would
also seem that an economic crater of some proportion is now underway. Just how big it
will get is, at present, unknown.
The moral degradation issue is a touchier one, but it has to be discussed. Thanks in
part to the American Civil Liberties Union, the far left of the Democratic party, humanist
and atheist societies, the dialogue about morals has sifted almost entirely away from
what is moral to what is legal. This has been done in order to advance gay rights, get
God and prayer completely out of government and the schools and cleanse as many
written works as possible of any reference to morality, right and wrong.
So what does the world see when they look at the United States of America? They
see Hollywood's tasteless and tawdry public portrayal of sexuality, flourishing
internet porn sites, gays demanding full rights to marry, parading in the street
and destroying property when their wishes are not granted, intense legal and political
pressue on the Boy Scounts of America to admit gay scoutmasters, the inclusion of
gay material in school textbooks, rampant political corruption with the virtual
auction of a senate seat, governors indicted for corruption, the head of the tax
writing body in the House of Representatives himself accused of being a tax cheat,
another openly gay representative thwarting strict controls on Fannie Mae while
having a gay affair with one of the officers who was spending the organization over
the brink, a senator convicted o bribery and corruption -- the list goes on, and on, and
on.
If the politically correct U.S. public wants to pull an Alfred E. Newman (who, me?),
then so be it. Nero is said to have fiddled whil Rome burned. The issue we tiptoe around
is whether there is a "right" or a "wrong" apart from what is legal or not. Even the most
intellectually disingenuous of us knows the answer to the dilemma in his/her heart, even
when pretense to the contrary persists. We also know that a great deal of what the ACLU
badgers some court into declaring legal is not right.
Will the U.S. collapse under the weight of its own foolishness and dishonor in 2010?
Maybe we need to stop rght now, step back and take a long look at where our society
is headed.
See the follow-up to this post to come soon.