"The west's current battle with radical Islam has revealed the worst in both the west and the world of Islam. Obviously from Islam we have seen the intolerance, hatred, oppression and evil in its nature. But, from the west we have seen revealed the hollowness of its soul and a complete lack of self-regard as so many western nations allow the evil of Islam to attack them from within as well as from without. The west has lost its spine to stand up for its own principles, in fact has thrown away all pretext that it even has principles worth preserving.
Ben Franklin is reported to have said that for the American people the Founders had created a Republic but he added the caution "if you can keep it." By that he meant, of course, that it was up to future Americans to maintain the system grounded upon the first principles the Founders bequeathed to us. The same can be said of any society for if a society throws away or strays too far from its beginnings it becomes a materially different entity. Now sometimes it's a good thing when a society strays from its genesis, to be sure. Leaving behind certain prejudices, rectifying the suppression of ideas or ending the oppression of minorities is the mark of a maturing, benevolent society. But, too much change can also be a bad thing. And change merely for changes sake is not a legitimate goal."
I thought there was a great comment by Loyd Selberg:"To acknowledge the loss of “Western manhood” without addressing the feminization of Western society is a perfect example of the problem. A man asks why men don’t act like men and defend our nation’s fist principles in a society politically controlled by women and feminized men.
Righteous men, not women, gave ther lives to built Western civilization for the benefit of women and children and are now being marginalized by the women that motivated their actions. Someone must have the courage to ask why no matriarchal society has ever succeeded in recorded history.
Fearful women seeking security will give up Western freedom and first principles rather than fight like men. There was a reason that our founding fathers didn’t give women the right to vote.
Winston Churchill understood: “The women’s suffrage movement is only the small edge of the wedge, if we allow women to vote it will mean the loss of social structure and the rise of every liberal cause under the sun. Women are well represented by their fathers, brothers, and husbands.”"