Wretchard, I can assure you the there is no “moral degradation” in defending Western Civilization, particularly at the moment of the deepest existential peril, and to do so at any cost. It is “moral degradation” not to do so. It is betrayal of the highest order.

This is an odd opinion for a Catholic. Our enemy is ancient to us, and we know his designs on the West. Remember Famagusta? He would sack the St. Peter’s and turn it into a mosque. He would burn the Louve. He would shoot a Pope. He would nuke Rome itself.

Once Catholics where not so fainthearted. Popes stood and called for Crusades for heaven’s sake. Dynasties were anointed by the church for standing up to Islam at the periphery of Christendom. This is why the West prevailed and advanced.