There is a lot more in America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It than demographics, but the numbers behind disastrous depopulation haunt all the discussions. I highly recommend that every voter read this book before the November election.
Regarding our struggle with Islamic extremism, I have said and written over and over again that diplomatic and military efforts by themselves are necessary but not sufficient to meet the challenge. Also needed is a cultural response rooted in vigorous Judeo-Christianity.
Here is a quote from page 68 on that point:
We still have no strategy for dealing with the ideology. Indeed, for the first few years of the war on “terror,” our leaders declined to acknowledge there was an ideology. And, as the years roll on, groups with terrorist ties are still able to insert their recruiters into America’s military bases, prisons, and pretty much anywhere else they get a yen to go. How come? What gives the jihad its global reach? It’s not difficult to figure out: Wahhabism is the most militant form of Islam, the one followed by all nineteen of the September 11 terrorists and by Osama bin Laden. The Saudis, whose state religion is Wahhabism, export their faith and affiliated local strains in lavishly endowed schools and mosques all over the world and, as a result, traditionally moderate Muslim populations from the Balkans to South Asia have been dramatically radicalized.
The worrisome complement to the Western population implosion is the Islamic population increase. Yemen has the world’s highest fertility rate. The country can’t support the population increase. Consider the implications.
Read the book.
Other recommended reading: The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Path to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright, and Imperial Grunts: On the Ground with the American Military, from Mongolia to the Philippines to Iraq and Beyond by Richard D. Kaplan.
