There's a great line in a fairly good movie called "8 MM", where Max California tells Tom Welles this:

If you dance with the devil, the devil don't change. The devil changes you.

Let's consider a scenario in which America capitulates to Radical Islam and the greater Middle East; consider it because it looms dead ahead.

As the news progresses by the hour, it is important for us to reflect for a moment on the things that have brought us here. First of course was the invasion of Iraq. Never mind Afghanistan. Never mind the 20 some odd years of bee stings levied against us by the growing and intentionally ignored rise of Radical Islam; the whole of history and the greater context won't be fully appreciated in the time I have left on this earth that God has granted me.