I saw computer simulations of what happened to Armenia and the Byzantine Empire to the west, once Islamic Jihad took over Persia and began the countless, numberless hammer blows of raids.

It was like watching a mountain being eroded, except a mountain doesn’t feel pain.

Unlike Gaia computer simulations, these ones weren’t programmed with a predetermined outcome using falsified and fabricated data cheats. The political and religious limitations of Islam were inputted and the warlike outcome was merely thus a result of their expansionary imperative.

Armenia and south of Egypt were the last bastions of what used to be Christianity in the Middle East. Neither Orthodox nor Catholic Christianity, but the one closest to Christ I thought, the Miaphysites.

I’m with you on that.

Let me just say, though, that I’ve made that argument on this blog at least since the 2008 election and definitely in the 2012 one. I still make it, but one thing I’ve learned is that the “let it burn” side doesn’t listen; they are in a sense nihilists of the right.

I’ve written several posts about that. Here’s one of them (take a look at the comments there, too).

You ask whether I’d want to die quickly or slowly. But that’s not what the West is facing. The better analogy is, if you knew you were going to Hell after you died, would you want to die quickly or slowly? If thing are going to turn as bad as they could, as bad as they historically usually are, then I’d do everything I could to put that off even a day. I like internet access, and affordable food, and not being decapitated.

I should point out that I’m an Armenian by ancestry. To us, the meaning of life is: work hard, take care of your family, worship God, and eventually get killed by Muslims. I’m not a naive optimist. I think you’re a naive optimist if you think that people will have time to talk about political parties after the West dies.

neo-neocon Says (September 12th, 2015 at 2:24 pm(:

“And yet, those same people are mostly angry at the GOP for not magically stopping Obama. They do not acknowledge the extreme limitations of a majority Republican Congress with a Democratic minority prepared to block anything, a Democratic president prepared to veto anything that might get through, and not enough of a majority to override that veto.”

Which suggest we answer an important counterfactual raised by our opponents ‘happy’ all those election cycles in the wilderness? Was it the all-sustaining biased mass media? The hope of a scandal (the Special Prosecutor’s many years hunt for Scooter Libby), perhaps? Or was it the rise of the LIV that rode to their rescue, and nothing else?

What did the Left have that kept them going for years that we don’t?

You think Christie isn’t socially conservative enough? So? he’s a fiscal conservative, he’s a national security conservative, he’s pro-life. How many of those is Hilary? Trump is a megalomaniac? Yup, but he’s a national security conservative, he’s a trade conservative, he’s an immigration conservative, and he knows that you succeed by hiring the best brains around, not by thinking you’re the smartest being ever to walk the planet. Does that sound like Crazy Uncle Joe? Carson doesn’t have government experience? You’re saying that’s a fault? You’d prefer an aging Red Diaper Baby? Are you serious?

RINO, schmino! Any one of them is better than Hilary, Joe, Bernie, Fakeahontas, or God forbid, Michelle. Yes we should pick the best candidate, and we have plenty of time to do that, but not voting for whoever the nominee is means voting for a Democrat. And that is suicidal.