Originally Posted by: hunter60LATS, I did listen to most of this and he is a terrific speaker. Very engaging and he does make some very, very solid points. But, and I mean with this with all due respect, he does the very same thing that he accuses of the left - the underlying theme was 'If you don't agree with me, you're wrong.' That troubles me. ....

I think that in order for anyone to stand up in front of a group of people and explain their beliefs, and how they were arrived at, human nature imposes a certain degree of that approach, purely as a defense mechanism. Frankly, I see much less of that in this particular speech, than in most of the firebrands that get a public platform to speak from.

I thought he took considerable pain to show how he was drawn to his conclusions over the objections of his friends and family, and the culture he was born into and raised by. His moral stance is beyond mine, but then, I'm not a particularly moral person. At least I recognise that.

His conclusions are well-supported. And scary, because his theory goes a long way towards explaining so much of the decay of Western civilization in the last 40 years. And why radical Islam views us as decadent, evil, and worthy of destruction. Which turns the War on Terrorism into a domestic struggle for us as well.