We’re Already In World War III
I’ve been hearing lately in regards to the Hezbollah-Israeli conflict that it has to be brought in check before it leads to World War III. I have news for those pundits who chose that as the Phrase of the Day. We’re already fighting the Third World War. We just don’t call it that yet.
While we were attacked in smaller though no less significant ways before 9/11 (the Cole, Khobar Towers, the African embassy bombings, Somalia, the ’93 WTC bombing, Beirut in ’83, etc.), America didn’t seriously enter the war until September 11, 2001. When we did, there was a realization among many, those who chose to look beyond the usual Republican/Democrat hogwash, that this was a war, now called The Long War, with no end in sight and no clear idea of who we would have to fight to end it. We only knew we were in it and we could continue suffering casualties or do something about it.
The famed “Axis of Evil” speech, the “You’re either with us or with the terrorists” line and what became the Bush Doctrine all were signs of our new global reality; one we actually were part of for years but only at that point acknowledged. Flush with oil money and emboldened by a fusion with global Marxists after an initial training and love affair with unreformed Nazi fascists, the shadow of Islamist terror organizations have merged with the old hardline Communist survivors (China, North Korea and Cuba) and even "ex" communists like Russia to take on the last remaining superpower and the chief impediment to their global goals, the United States.
The United States must be reduced and or forced back into isolationism if any of their agendas are to succeed. They see the model of Vietnam and know this is the only way they can fight the U.S. until some of them are militarily capable of challenging it. The most likely candidates in the short term will be China and/or North Korea, with possibly Iran bringing up the rear. This is the war currently waged against us and there are willing allies, either complicit or implicit, in the form of the American Left.
Whether the U.S. fights militarily in the Middle East and elsewhere or whether we're fighting the battle of political wills here at home, we have to keep in mind, we didn't start this. No, no. Don't start pulling out your lists of "Well America did this". Trust me. I've seen those lists since college and they're starting to get a little stale. No country, especially not those currently aligned against the U.S., has done more for the world or guaranteed more freedom for its own people than the U.S. It's certainly not perfect and we wage that campaign daily as well, but I'll take it over the rest of the world any day.
What I mean by us not starting it is, there's nothing we could do to just turn it off tomorrow. Israel's current conflict with Hezbollah is a prime example. Hezbollah and Hamas started this round by killing Israeli soldiers and then kidnapping others. Israel responded by going after those organizations with everything it had. It could have easily folded up and died, but it didn't. And all these discussions of a cease fire and peace in the Middle East seem to be focusing on stopping Israel's offensive. Well, one must consider Israel isn't the only one shooting, nor did it start the shooting. Until you can get Hezbollah to cave, there will be no peace, except one forced on an Israel that is winning. The only way Hezbollah will talk peace is if their Baathist masters in Syria or their sugar daddies in Iran pull their financing, and that won't happen. One could make an arguable case that Iran and/or Syria put Hamas and Hezbollah up to this latest round of bloodshed.
The United States is in the same situation. Are we to stand by and watch them kill more and more of us, becoming bolder and bolder in their attacks, until one day we all live under dhimmitude? Is that our best solution? Or do we go into their dens and kill them all? Not a lot of middle ground there. We couldn't "contain" the Soviets. We couldn't stop at the Rhine when fighting the Germans. We couldn't not drop the atomic bomb on Japan. Half ass doesn't win a war. It just lets the enemy catch their breath and hit you again another day.
All the arguments against the war in Iraq or the Israeli-Hezbollah/Hamas conflict or even the war in Afghanistan fail to take into consideration a) history and b) other nations' and NGOs' motives. Until they do, the arguments are moot. We are in a war not of our choosing and will only be out of it when the other side begs for peace or is dead. This may be contained. This may get out of control and most likely all of us will be lucky to live through it. Just don't make the mistake of thinking we aren't living in the middle of the next World War.
I’ve been hearing lately in regards to the Hezbollah-Israeli conflict that it has to be brought in check before it leads to World War III. I have news for those pundits who chose that as the Phrase of the Day. We’re already fighting the Third World War. We just don’t call it that yet.
While we were attacked in smaller though no less significant ways before 9/11 (the Cole, Khobar Towers, the African embassy bombings, Somalia, the ’93 WTC bombing, Beirut in ’83, etc.), America didn’t seriously enter the war until September 11, 2001. When we did, there was a realization among many, those who chose to look beyond the usual Republican/Democrat hogwash, that this was a war, now called The Long War, with no end in sight and no clear idea of who we would have to fight to end it. We only knew we were in it and we could continue suffering casualties or do something about it.
The famed “Axis of Evil” speech, the “You’re either with us or with the terrorists” line and what became the Bush Doctrine all were signs of our new global reality; one we actually were part of for years but only at that point acknowledged. Flush with oil money and emboldened by a fusion with global Marxists after an initial training and love affair with unreformed Nazi fascists, the shadow of Islamist terror organizations have merged with the old hardline Communist survivors (China, North Korea and Cuba) and even "ex" communists like Russia to take on the last remaining superpower and the chief impediment to their global goals, the United States.
The United States must be reduced and or forced back into isolationism if any of their agendas are to succeed. They see the model of Vietnam and know this is the only way they can fight the U.S. until some of them are militarily capable of challenging it. The most likely candidates in the short term will be China and/or North Korea, with possibly Iran bringing up the rear. This is the war currently waged against us and there are willing allies, either complicit or implicit, in the form of the American Left.
Whether the U.S. fights militarily in the Middle East and elsewhere or whether we're fighting the battle of political wills here at home, we have to keep in mind, we didn't start this. No, no. Don't start pulling out your lists of "Well America did this". Trust me. I've seen those lists since college and they're starting to get a little stale. No country, especially not those currently aligned against the U.S., has done more for the world or guaranteed more freedom for its own people than the U.S. It's certainly not perfect and we wage that campaign daily as well, but I'll take it over the rest of the world any day.
What I mean by us not starting it is, there's nothing we could do to just turn it off tomorrow. Israel's current conflict with Hezbollah is a prime example. Hezbollah and Hamas started this round by killing Israeli soldiers and then kidnapping others. Israel responded by going after those organizations with everything it had. It could have easily folded up and died, but it didn't. And all these discussions of a cease fire and peace in the Middle East seem to be focusing on stopping Israel's offensive. Well, one must consider Israel isn't the only one shooting, nor did it start the shooting. Until you can get Hezbollah to cave, there will be no peace, except one forced on an Israel that is winning. The only way Hezbollah will talk peace is if their Baathist masters in Syria or their sugar daddies in Iran pull their financing, and that won't happen. One could make an arguable case that Iran and/or Syria put Hamas and Hezbollah up to this latest round of bloodshed.
The United States is in the same situation. Are we to stand by and watch them kill more and more of us, becoming bolder and bolder in their attacks, until one day we all live under dhimmitude? Is that our best solution? Or do we go into their dens and kill them all? Not a lot of middle ground there. We couldn't "contain" the Soviets. We couldn't stop at the Rhine when fighting the Germans. We couldn't not drop the atomic bomb on Japan. Half ass doesn't win a war. It just lets the enemy catch their breath and hit you again another day.
All the arguments against the war in Iraq or the Israeli-Hezbollah/Hamas conflict or even the war in Afghanistan fail to take into consideration a) history and b) other nations' and NGOs' motives. Until they do, the arguments are moot. We are in a war not of our choosing and will only be out of it when the other side begs for peace or is dead. This may be contained. This may get out of control and most likely all of us will be lucky to live through it. Just don't make the mistake of thinking we aren't living in the middle of the next World War.
posted by Rob Beck | 7:42 AM
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