Gentlemen, There is No Fighting in the War Room!

Why didn’t you tell us about the missiles eh?

Surely the timing of the US-Poland missile defense agreement cannot be coincidental? I mean, on the day that Russia asserts that it will continue to support the two separatist regions in Georgia, US and Poland agrees on a missile defense pact that had been stalling for a long time? This is just too good to be true.

I don’t want to overstate the significance of this conflict and what it ultimately might mean for the international arena, but it sure is fun to watch, from a detached, academic point of view. A part of me wants to rub my eyes and wonder if we’ve entered into some kind of tear in the space-time continuum and travelled back into the past.

Sigh, whatever happened to those idyllic days of the 1990s, when history ended?

Look Out! The Minorities are Coming!

From the New York Times: In a Generation, Minorities May be the US Majority:

“The census calculates that by 2042, Americans who identify themselves as Hispanic, black, Asian, American Indian, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander will together outnumber non-Hispanic whites. Four years ago, officials had projected the shift would come in 2050.

The main reason for the accelerating change is significantly higher birthrates among immigrants. Another factor is the influx of foreigners, rising from about 1.3 million annually today to more than 2 million a year by midcentury, according to projections based on current immigration policies. “

Oh boy, I can already hear the chorus of alarmism and xenophobia ready to break out: I only wish that I had a TV in my apartment so I can watch Lou Dobbs go purple in the face about the threat to national identity.

I can only hope that we will not have a repeat of what is currently happening in Europe, with all this alarmist-sounding rhetoric about higher immigrant birthrates, and how minorities will destroy “America as we know it.”