@ 10 Lee Reynolds

“An inferior culture, when constantly confronted by a superior one, will either adapt or it will die.”

Don’t bet on it. Roman civilization vs the barbarians? Who won, ushering in the dark ages?

In fact, primitive, militant Isalm offers an existential threat to the west. Not in conventional warfare, but because of the proliferation of nuclear weapons in the hands of grubs and lunatics like North Korean junta, and, soon, the theocrats in Iran; to say nothing of the perilous state of Pakistan’s arsenal. Imagine nuclear devices at the disposal of the Taliban or Al Qaeda.

A few nukes going off in major western cities could lead to retaliation and all-out conflagration, which could easily send us back to the dark ages, if it didn’t anihilate us altogether.