Wretchard, this is merely the ongoing Western Civil War.

The elites want to replace the Western White Middle Class with a foreign people, mostly non-White, who will be more compliant and better serfs than the natives.

The people are wanting to throw out the elites, and create their own institutions. Against this is the threat of jihad and Muslim demands for Sharia, globally. It will only take ONE incident like John Brown’s raid on Harper’s ferry to bring off a Hot instead of a Cold Civil War.

Suppose, for example, KSM is found not guilty and released? Or that where ever his trial is, hostages are taken and demands made (i.e. release KSM for the hostages) and Obama does it, with the predictable results (dead hostages, a free 9/11 Mastermind).

The result of course will not be status-quo ante. It will not be John McCain, or even Scott Brown. It will be … something along the lines of the BNP (shudder). Such a result will be directly the responsibility of elites like Friedman pushing too far, in their transnational dreams of dominance.