Barone hits the nail on the head again.

I often enjoy Michael Barone's work, and this column is an especially good, if short, read. There's a need to understand that elites on the Left aren't interested in defending this nation, they're actually desirous of our defeat.

And in their self-hatred they're willing to overlook everything that'd be lost should the West lose this war. I've been scoffed at for likening what we're going through to the "Barbarians at the Gate" period for Rome. But that's indeed what we're facing.

Hizballah, Iran, Hamas, Syria, al Qaeda, Chavez, the Taliban, Sudan, Eva Morales, Robert Mugabe, while not formally allied, are at the gates and are wanting to destroy the freedoms and ways of the West.

Gay marriage? Fuhgeddaboutit. Divorce? Gonner. Elections? Nope. Science and medicine? Nor to these Luddites.

I'd say it's time to wake up, but a sizable chunk in he West is in active denial. We will win this war with or without this chunk, or it simply won't matter.