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 You are better off reading the Book of Revelation July 17, 2008
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
Instead of the Red Scare (those damn pinko commies) we now have the Islamic threat. Read "The Concept of the Political" by Carl Schmidtt in order to understand the necessity of creating an existentially threatening 'other' for the sake of reinforcing national cohesion and identity. As some may know, Schmidtt was influential (especially in his critique of liberalism) in both National Socialist circles and in neo-conservative circles.
This is a re-hashing of Huntington, only Steyn is even more alarmist and pessimistic (who could have thought it was possible) in his 'prophetic' (read sarcasm) judgments. If you want a real book on the decline of empire that has a historical perspective beyond the past 15 years, then read Kennedy's "The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers".
 A Must Read if you care about your future July 7, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Mark Steyn tells it like it is. Western Europe is in decline; Canada is in decline; America is on the brink. There is nothing politically correct about Mark's discourse. It's a frank discussion about how the Islamist/Muslim world is in its ascendancy while we (the West) are in decline based largely on current demographics. It scared the heck out of me, and if I can do nothing else I can at least spread the word. We need to react before our way of life, our culture is no more.America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It
Truly Exceptional July 7, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is an exceptionally written and argued book. The central theme, that demographics favor radical Islam, and that the challenge posed is existential and immediate, is a Steyn classic.
You won't be disappointed.
Every American citizen needs to read this book! July 6, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book is a call to arms for all Americans who wish to retain the real values that this country was founded upon. This country is too special, too unique to be allowed to waste away and melt into a European model that is clearly broken. All immigrants who come to this country MUST wish to become true Americans and ONLY American. We can no longer welcome all and allow them to shun the American way of life and begin to impose foreign laws on this government. This has been and always will be the greatest way of life that was ever created and it must not die. We can and will embrace many cultures as part of the fabric of America, but never to the exclusion of the ideals that make it great.
 makes interesting points when not busy being racist July 5, 2008
1 out of 11 found this review helpful
Mark Steyn is Rush Limbaugh II.
Everything in this book - fact or assertion - is riddled and biased with unadulterated, not-willing-to-see-sense conversativism. For example, Steyn will give you a believable 2 + 2 and then throw in an absurd, unsupported conclusion like 753. That's why it deserved even one star...it was entertaining, if terribly politically incorrect, and made interesting points when it was not busy being racist.
This piece of arrogance is reminiscent of Kipling's "White Man's Burden".
(Which is probably why some of the reviewers are so fond of it. That was a bestseller in its time, as well.) It plays on Americans own arrogance, fear, and sense of self-importance.
It basically groups Whites and Everyone Else together. I was completely offended, even though I'm not Muslim. It is people like Steyn who have destroyed the public perception of Islam, even more than the jihadists, by putting all Muslims (and any non-Whites) in one group.
*insert long-bottled up scream here*
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