Dammit--all of Samuel Huntington's major arguments have been wrong. The American soldier was a reflection of the larger society at the end of the nineteenth century, not wholly separated from it (Soldier and the State). Considering our close relationship with France and Germany right now, and the historical lovefest between Sunni and Shia Muslims, the "clash of civilizations" argument might be a tad bit simplistic. And every single one of the concerns about immigration we have today, Americans had about the Irish, Italians, Slavs, etc. in the past. If anything, the immigrant problem pales by comparison to the beginning of the last century, when one-fifth, that's right 20%, of the WWI Army was made up of immigrants. Not children of immigrants, actual immigrants, many of whom did not speak English. So his latest bugaboo is overblown, too.

Look, I want to preserve American traditions, but if they were all Anglo-Protestant, why that revolution thing from England? So before Samuel Huntington and his acolytes at National Review send you all into a panic about the fate of the nation, just keep his record in mind.