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(National Public Radio � NPR): Frank, what�s the state of the union?

Frank Miller: Well. I don�t really find myself worrying about the state of the union as I do the state of the home-front. It seems to me quite obvious that our country and the entire Western World is up against an existential foe that knows exactly what it wants � and we�re behaving like a collapsing empire�

NPR: A lot of people would say what America has done abroad has led to the doubts and even the hatred of its own citizens.

Frank Miller: Well, okay, then let�s finally talk about the enemy. For some reason, nobody seems to be talking about who we�re up against, and the sixth century barbarism that they actually represent. These people saw peoples� heads off. They enslave women, they genitally mutilate their daughters, they do not behave by any cultural norms that are sensible to us. I�m speaking into a microphone that never could have been a product of their culture, and I�m living in a city where three thousand of my neighbors were killed by thieves of airplanes they never could have built.

NPR: As you look at people around you, though, why do you think they�re so, as you would put it, self-absorbed, even whiny?

Frank Miller: Well, I�d say it�s for the same reason the Athenians and Romans were. We�ve got it a little good right now. Where I would fault President Bush the most, was that in the wake of 9/11, he motivated our military, but he didn�t call the nation into a state of war��