Hi Bob,
> ..."people that disrespect our military heroes..."

Fr. Emil Kapaun was a Catholic priest, army captain, and Medal of Honor recipient.

You and I have different ideas of liberal democracy.

So none of these things would have happened, if we would have just all consecrated ourselves to Mary?

We have different ethical guidelines than we did in the past, but this is not the same as a lack of ethical guidelines.
The improvement in life for minorities has improved drastically in the last 100 years.
Yes, standards of living do tend to go down after brutal recessions. They will rise with the economy.

I'll agree with that :)

My point is that your claim is Western-centric.

Christi pax.

Liberal democracies founded on enlightenment principles can go to war for economic or geopolitic goals as much as any other form of society. In fact, in Lybia and Siria those democracies supported wars to deffend liberty, democracy and human rights, even if the conflicts were totally prone -as any other- to violate more human rights- and accepted the help as ground forces from groups like what is currently known as Islamic State.

French Fisrt Reublic perfomred the first genocide of modernity. Yes, the catholic farmers had rebelled against the liberal goverment, but that liberal goverment took the decision to perform an antecedent of the "final solution", not sparing anyone.

Nazism, Ex-Jugoeslavia, Rwanda... How long a chain of facts must go before it becomes a trend?