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Entry: Mr. bin Laden, Meet Mr. Kennan--A New Containment Policy Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/mr_bin_laden_meet_mr_kennan_a_new_containment_policy#19868 Post contents: @T.O. Meehan: A little more, having finished dinner with my family. Sid Cundiff, in the midst of all his irrelevancies and deliberate misrepresentations of my positions, did hit on something very important when he mentioned low birth rates. Contraception, as I've discussed in other venues, is not so much a cause of a culture in decline as it is a symptom. The fact is, birth rates in societies in decline drop even in the absence of widespread access to contraception. That's because people tend to have more children when they are optimistic about their future; they tend to refrain from having children when they're not. As I've pointed out on this website (and in articles elsewhere), of all the children I interviewed at the Muslim school here in Rockford in February 2002, only one had fewer than three siblings--and he was a nominal Christian. These aren't poor, uneducated people who don't know better (the lie usually told about those who have big families); these are the children of doctors and lawyers and engineers. The size of their family tells us that they value children and that they are optimistic about their future, unlike so many self-identified Christians in the United States. Sent at: 2008 10 12