The Looming Tower receives "5 Stars"
 

m II wrote:
bpnjensen wrote:

It seems like to do this, there would
need to be a dynamic movement from within that can overcome the
rhetoric that seems to so appeal to the testosterone-laden young men on
which the terrorists depend...


Testosterone laden? More like Bin-Laden....The Bush Family business
partners...
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"There are signs that Allah will grant Islam victory in
Europe--without swords, without guns, without conquests. The fifty
million Muslims of Europe will turn it into a Muslim country within a
few decades."...Gadhafi
It's all about demographics. Europeans are not reproducing
themselves and Muslims are multiplying. In the EU, western women
produce 1.4 children: Muslim women produce 3.5.. At these rates, Yemen
will have more people that Russia by 2050. Young people in North
America are putting off having children so they can get a BMW and a
Caribbean vacation and the wife's income is crucial to maintain a high
standard of consumption. Children are so expensive that many couples
feel that they can't afford even one. The US rate is 2.1 and the rise
in US population is largely due to immigration. Quebec encourages
family formation but has had no success wih its "revenge de la creche"
policy. The growing numbers of retired people supported by a dwindling
number of young workers spells disaster for the social safety net. When
Social Security was first enacted there were 16 workers for every
retiree: today , the ratio is about 4 to 1.
There is a point of fertility called the "lowest-low" (1.3) from
which no human society has ever recovered. Greece(1.3), Italy(1.2), and
Spain(1.1) are dying societies by this measure and the vacant
infrastructures will be inhabited by Muslims. This is the projection of
existing trends, of course something might happen to change it all. I
remember reading a scientific paper on the problem of horse dung in
London in 1880. It proved with flawless mathematics that at the current
(1880) rate of growth, London would be six feet deep in horse dung by
1910. Well, something happened then but If nothing changes now, we are
doomed.
We will probably look back on these times as a "Golden Age" so
"gather ye rosebuds while ye may " and look on the dwindling number of
short-wave stations (of course I'm on topic) as both a demographic and
technical change.