Letter: Critical conditions

Editor, Daily News:

Rarely do most great nations realize when they are in their death throes. Undoubtedly, the citizens of ancient Rome should have done more than merely attend the games, and the Aztecs should have challenged the bluster of the Conquistadors.

We Americans have an advantage, in that we have the ability, if not the willingness, to diagnose that we are in fact dying. As importantly, we are also able to identify the diseases that may do us in.

Our public school system is yielding far too few educated citizens to support the needs of our future society. It is primarily the horrors that they succeed in teaching that provides the quandary. Money hasn't, and cannot, cure this problem. We cannot be "both free and ignorant." This is the disease of pollution.

If the ludicrous Senate Immigration Bill becomes law, there will be 60 million to 200 million new "residents" over the next 20 years. This will destroy the cultural forces that have allowed us to be the greatest global benefactor. Most of these new arrivals will be uneducated agrarians. This is the disease of dilution.

With political correctness running amok, we are unwilling to comfort the hideous brutality of the worldwide Islamic jihad. Look at Europe to see this disease in its early stages. Muslims, as a fulfillment of Islamic dogma, consume their host countries through violence, threats of savagery and/or by sheer weight of reproductive success. This is the disease of displacement.

If you're old enough (80 or more), your nation's demise probably won't happen in your lifetime. If you are younger, however, then your failure to respond appropriately to the diseases above will have you living within the "corpse" of an America that used to be, but no longer is.

Andrew R. Joppa , Naples