From time to time, an event occurs that provides an opportunity to see reality with great moral clarity.  This is one of those times that exposes the archipelago of evil that has festered in Western culture.  Part of it is home-grown, cultivated in academia, and part of it has been imported by a feckless ruling class. 

It happened like a thunderclap on 9/11/2001.   The atrocity in Israel is longer lasting and gives us an opportunity to look at what we have allowed to happen.  We now have the chance to make the changes that need to be made if civilization is to survive.