Question of the Moment

It has taken 7 years of day-by-day pavement-pounding in the Big Apple -- the Multicultural Mecca, the Alternative Lifestyle Apex, the Progressive Paradise -- to raise in our mind this question: When Italians get together and live in a neighborhood, it's called Little Italy and is a destination for authentic Italian fare; with Chinese, it's Chinatown. The Polish have settled in Greenpoint, and that's where you go for a taste of what makes Polish culture, Polish culture. Etc, etc.

Why then, when black Americans live together in a neighborhood is it called a "ghetto" and nobody wants to go there?

As a sidebar, New Yorkers can apparently look forward to having a "Little Sodom" what with the "historic" progressive "victory" giving legal sanction to the unnatural "union" of same sex couples. Refer to the Armageddon reference in this "Hypothesis of the Moment."

Hypothesis of the Moment

It concerns the mortal enemies of the US, of civilization, of Israel. It goes along these lines: Emboldened by the effectiveness of their 9/11 attacks on the US, the Barbarians -- sworn to the annihilation of their enemies -- have scaled up their plans to include a repeat with more effective means: nukes. Hence, Iran's very visible nuclear development campaign.

Because their overarching motivation is the elimination of Israel, they must remove the United States as her ally before the can "push Israel into the sea." Thus the neutralization of the US, by any means necessary, isn't merely a perverse desire, it's strategic requirement.

So we look for a repeat, an Armageddon scenario. Yeah, well, you tell me why it won't happen, if this seems so far-fetched.