Like a lot of others who commented on that blog...
I don't necessarily see eye-to-eye with...er, "wretcherd," but *damn* he's a good blogger.
Read his own comment that begins "Let me tell a fable."
Could the west lose our willingness to blow the limbs off foreign children when it suits our purposes?
Maybe in an unimaginably distant future, I suppose. But for now and for a long time to come, we're just monkeys with ill-fitting clothing and hyperdestructive toys.