Screwtape lives!
Vive l'exception!
In the future, this would have been the past.
-- Triumph of the Postmodern: The Third World War Revisited, Notes on the Third Edition by Monty Python, p. 2.
Of course at this time the decision still in doubt. Islamic entente forces with a remarkable string of non-linear successes -- the recent US terror alerts being a good example. The billions of dollars spent in defending unlikely targets beginning to show a strain on the American economy. As Napoleon said, "He who defends everything defends nothing..."
The Anglo-American alliance with two critical weaknesses -- each a vulnerable juncture providing the Islamic entente a nexus of opportunity to strike and win the war in dramatic fashion.
The first of course is the UK. Opposition forces with the capability in place to deliver a knockout blow in the form of a Tet-style assault that shocks the entire world as Islamic gunmen rampage through a suicide-bomb ravaged London. The Brits have admirably neutralised the threats to their ports with their recent COIN strikes, but still the airports and airline infrastructure is shredded from a security perspective. A spectacular strike designed to knock Britain out of the war and extend the fight a decade will eventually put ultimate pressure on the fatal weakness of the West.
The interlocking financial structures that the entire Western alliance hinge on are teetering now. One decisive blow could collapse an over-leveraged economic house of cards that is shaken (not stirred) by the modern day Bismarck's -- George W Bush -- correct call in weakening the dollar. The oil jugular is still exposed until the pipeline comes on line the end of this decade. Surging oil prices combined with attacks versus American airlines and refinery capacity could trigger a meltdown scenario...
Fortunately the modern day Bismarck knows this far better than any and is prepared. Cunning GOP operatives have manipulated the invisibility of the internet to bring the ultimate loser -- Howard Dean -- within a hair of the Democratic nomination. He will be crushed by president Bush in November -- thus opening the way for the neo-conservatives to bury a three-ponter from the (right) wing...
Iran, Syria, and North Korea to be crushed in 2005 so that all mankind can be free. Naturally the Russian Federation and their madman-controlled WMD must first be neutralised. Fortunately the greatest fighter on the face of this earth -- Shamil Basayev -- has been assigned this light work. Should Russian forces fail to withdraw north of the Terek River by February 1, Mr Putin going to learn a very hard lesson indeed...
The groundhog won't see his shadow in Moscow on February 2nd -- it will be much too cloudy. And rather warm... Putin nothing but an ex-KGB thug wearing a cheap suit and bad haircut -- he is unlikely to see 2005 as president...
The Third World War certainly a complicated business. Fortunately Greater Albania ready to step up and carry the Brits and Americans on their shoulders should things get tough. Tirana a beehive of Islamic entente activity -- but the Brits all over them there now...
They say LSU will play in the Sugar Bowl in America soon. When the Bayou Tigers play one is always reminded of Halloween night in 1959 when Billy Cannon ran that punt back against Ole Miss in the waning moments. Jake Gibbs, the New York Yankees catcher in the 1960's, was the punter on that play and often talked about that game with the Coach...
I mention it because the Coach was on his way down to New Orleans that night to catch a freighter for Havana -- having just been sacked by the State Department after a brief career there following his adventures at Dien Bien Phu -- and wrecked his Buick listening to the punt return...
Seems he had all his cash bet on LSU that night and that might be a good strategy on January 4. Just remember that under Las Vegas rules a game becomes official with five minutes left in the fourth quarter -- regardless of what follows. If for any reason the game is not finished -- make sure not to throw away those winning tickets...
You can believe the Islamic entente is well aware of that...
The forces of freedom on the move. Europe trembles.