Not sure if correct. 88 is the interval from 1099 to 1187. However, Byzantine Jerusalem was not conquered until 634 (after Muhammad's death).

Social security is not socialism automatically. It’s how social security is implemented that defines whether what we have is socialism or capitalism. I can contribute to a 401K for my retirement. The funds are mine and I choose the investment firm that administers & maintains my account. The federal government could run an equivalent function should it choose, notwithstanding the constitutionality of whether it has such an authority, but that point is moot since Social Security has already been deemed constitutional by the SCOTUS. Was Social Security as originally created like a government run 401K? One can argue this, but it is likewise moot since congress stole the money in the 1968 unified budget.

It doesn't seem that long ago the western world celebrated the supposed death of communism, one of two existing global movements with a goal of world domination. However, communism did not die, and their plan called not for conquest but collapse of western civilization from within ... which is a very real possibility. Most of the western world has become economically unsustainable as the former USSR, the very thing that led to its destruction. I don't know who will win the tontine between the Islamic world and the Socialist world. I don't believe the free world as we knew it is even in the running anymore.

It doesn't seem that long ago the western world celebrated the supposed death of communism, one of two existing global movements with a goal of world domination. However, communism did not die, and their plan called not for conquest but collapse of western civilization from within ... which is a very real possibility. Most of the western world has become economically unsustainable as the former USSR, the very thing that led to its destruction. I don't know who will win the tontine between the Islamic world and the Socialist world. I don't believe the free world as we knew it is even in the running anymore.

It doesn't seem that long ago the western world celebrated the supposed death of communism, one of two existing global movements with a goal of world domination. However, communism did not die, and their plan called not for conquest but collapse of western civilization from within ... which is a very real possibility. Most of the western world has become economically unsustainable as the former USSR, the very thing that led to its destruction. I don't know who will win the tontine between the Islamic world and the Socialist world. I don't believe the free world as we knew it is even in the running anymore.

It doesn't seem that long ago the western world celebrated the supposed death of communism, one of two existing global movements with a goal of world domination. However, communism did not die, and their plan called not for conquest but collapse of western civilization from within ... which is a very real possibility. Most of the western world has become economically unsustainable as the former USSR, the very thing that led to its destruction. I don't know who will win the tontine between the Islamic world and the Socialist world. I don't believe the free world as we knew it is even in the running anymore.

It doesn't seem that long ago the western world celebrated the supposed death of communism, one of two existing global movements with a goal of world domination. However, communism did not die, and their plan called not for conquest but collapse of western civilization from within ... which is a very real possibility. Most of the western world has become economically unsustainable as the former USSR, the very thing that led to its destruction. I don't know who will win the tontine between the Islamic world and the Socialist world. I don't believe the free world as we knew it is even in the running anymore.

The USSR collapsed because of the simple fact that socialism is not economically sustainable. End of story? No, because socialism had already taken root in the rest of the western world, but are in denial that somehow we will not suffer the same fate.

It doesn't seem that long ago the western world celebrated the supposed death of communism, one of two existing global movements with a goal of world domination. However, communism did not die, and their plan called not for conquest but collapse of western civilization from within ... which is a very real possibility. Most of the western world has become economically unsustainable as the former USSR, the very thing that led to its destruction. I don't know who will win the tontine between the Islamic world and the Socialist world. I don't believe the free world as we knew it is even in the running anymore.

Civil war is ugly. We had one too. Over 600,000 dead. There's ample enough evidence that once the population goes to war within itself unspeakable atrocities occur that are not limited to those under the direction of government or opposition leaders. Jefferson Davis did not direct Quantrill. Yet the press reports daily that Bashar Assad is systematically murdering innocent civilians. This is about as responsible as printing how the Spanish blew up the Maine, or that German soldiers marched through Belgium with babies skewered upon the ends of their rifle bayonets. All Yellow Journalism serves an intentional common purpose to sway an uninvolved public to take a side in someone else's conflict.