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| Pat Buchanan: Has The West The Will to Survive? |
| 2018-06-22 |
| [WND] "If you’re ... pathetically weak, the country is going to be overrun with millions of people, and if you’re strong, then you don’t have any heart, that’s a tough dilemma. ... I’d rather be strong." So said President Donald Trump, on issuing his order halting the separation of children from parents caught breaking into the country. Trump’s enemies are celebrating a victory. Yet the issue remains. Under U.S. law, teenagers and tots cannot be detained for more than 20 days and must be held in the least-restrictive facilities. But if the children cannot be separated from the parents as they await trial, both will have to be released to keep families together. We are back to "catch and release." When that welcome news hits Central America, the migrant stream moving north will become a river that never ceases to flow. The questions America and the West face might thus be framed: Is there a liberal, progressive, Christian way to seal a 2,000-mile border, halt millions of migrants from crossing it illegally and send intruders back whence they came? Or does the preservation of Western nations and peoples require measures from which liberal societies today reflexively recoil? Does the survival of the West as a civilization require a ruthlessness the West no longer possess? Consider what our fathers did to build this country. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #5 The West seems bent on cultural suicide. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2018-06-22 12:56 |
| #4 Not in the urban areas, but in fly over country where they grow and actually make things other than shuffling paper. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2018-06-22 11:53 |
| #3 Which part of the West? |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2018-06-22 10:10 |
| #2 I am afraid that at this point int time the words 'Liberal, Progressive, and Christian' no longer go together in any way, shape, or form. |
| Posted by: Cesare 2018-06-22 08:45 |
| #1 Individuals have varying amounts of motivation to survive. At the organizational level, the bigger the organization the less likely the motivation exists. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2018-06-22 07:23 |