This explains a great deal. . .

Angelo Codevilla has really done a job.  A hard, sometimes distasteful one that, in the end, fails to answer all questions, solve all problems, or radically disrupt the prevailing paradigm.

But he did a difficult job, and did it as well as anyone could.

The job he did was to attempt to lay out the basic clash that is reaching its denoument in these days, and years coming up.  Almost no one will whole-heartedly like it.  Everyone will find something incomplete, or slanted, or simplistic within it.  If, however, we ignore it, and fail to take up the spark it ignites, then we will have nowhere to turn as preventable disaster overcomes us.

You don't have to read it.  You should, though.

America's Ruling Class -- And the Perils of Revolution

By Angelo M. Codevilla from the July 2010 - August 2010 issue