[edcoil]

My, Barbara seems to have her nickers in a twist.

Now were in WWIV? Just last week we had WWIII. She wants to bomb it seems, everyone, everywhere.

[johnny7]

Not since 1938... has the danger been so clear... and the response so inadequate.

[MNJohnnie]

Absurd hysterics by the Rabid Know Nothings. Counter Insurgency is NOT Total War. Way past time the Arm Chair Pattons tone done their Drama Queen Hysterics and get a grip on reality.

[Former Proud Canadian]

A formal declaration of war against Iran, Iraq, Hezzbollah, Hamas, and Al Queda is LONG overdue. Declare war against these entities. Let the president pursue the war as he see fit. USE EVERY WEAPON IN THE ARSENAL TO WIN THE WAR. Win the war and be done with it.

Once these countries and their surrogates have been dealt with, settle North Korea's hash.

[APRPEH]

we keep waiting for the mad-mullahs of Iran to fall from inside in an internal reaction or counter-revolution. i am starting to think that this too is propaganda.

[Restorer]

This poor lady is hyperventilating. WWIII (or IV) hasn't started yet. We're still in the equivalent of the late 30s, with the various crises in the Rhineland, Czechoslovakia, Austria, etc.

We don't want to fight a war, so we keep hoping it will go away if we refuse to recognize that it's approaching.

Luckily the jihadists pose no real threat to America as a nation. They do not have and will not develop the ability to defeat us.

Hitler, OTOH, came very close to winning his war, which could probably have resulted int the eventual conquest of the US.

[Mamzelle]

Who is Barbara Lerner?

[RightWhale]

Can we finish losing WW III before we start WW IV? These WWs are expensive win or lose.

[andre573]

It all boils down to the price you want to pay. Launch a strike against Iran and oil goes away so the price is going to go up. Iran can probably still do signficant damage during the attack against the Straits of Hormuz and other oil facilities in the region. Or it could stoke a general uprising against the Ayatollahs. I think Israel would use nukes, why would they have them otherwise. The Islamists don't seem to care about MAD.

[takenoprisoner]

I second the motion of obliterating Iran's nuke threat before they blow us to smitherines.

Somebody give dubya a nudge. Iran is hellbent on annilhilating America and Israel.

[capitalist229]

When in doubt, bomb.

BUMP

[mojito]

"More ominous yet, they (the Mullahs) threaten to unleash an apocalyptic surprise on us on August 22, the night they believe Mohammed lit up the skies by ascending to heaven from the Al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem....Most Americans are still unaware of Iran’s promise to light up the skies with a great surprise on August 22, but Muslims everywhere are keenly aware of it; most await the day with growing excitement."

We've been given our warning. Our media has dismissed it, or ignored it. Our politicians say nothing. The clock is ticking. Will we wake that morning to another horror?

[BurbankKarl]

I hate when people throw around terms like World War 3 and World War 4....they dont know what they are talking about.

[tioga]

Did I miss WWIII?

[jordan8]

There is no WW IV, only a civil war within the West. Islamists are only vultures hanging around to eat the carcass. The war is the leftist elites policy of committing genocide, particularly through immigration, against their own peoples and nations, aided and abetted by business collaborators on the "right." Establishment conservatives do so want it to be, at the very least, another cold war, because they understand they are impotent in domestic politics and it's becoming increasingly difficult to keep the domestic shell game going. They lost the culture war and they must lose the political war as well. The first cold war kept the Republicans and the safe conservative establishment artificially alive for decades, and many are hoping the new one will do the same job but that is unlikely.

[The Iceman Cometh]

Since it seems we're hung up on numbers, I would suggest that this is a continuation of World War I which began with the assasination of Archduke Ferdinand. Remember, this assasination had ethnic/muslim underpinnings.

[Robert DeLong]

Very interesting read indeed. I must admit I agree with everything she has to say. Too bad GWB doesn't have the b@lls to follow through with this plan. I think he is worried about his "LEGACY". I fell I have the right to say that about GWB since I helped put him into office twice.

[betty boop]

Most Americans are still unaware of Iran’s promise to light up the skies with a great surprise on August 22, but Muslims everywhere are keenly aware of it; most await the day with growing excitement.

Interesting. (How's that for an understatement???)

Thanks for the post aculeus!

[MEGoody]

We’re Losing World War IV

When did WW III finish? I must have missed the memo.

[Paul Ross]

Bump!

Interesting how fast the "What Me Worry" crowd showed up to try and deflect common sense with their aspersions.