[proud American in Canada]

Re #9: LOL! Might as well use a derogatory term in his own idiom.

(reverts to small typeface b/c she has no idea... Okay, what other World War did I miss? Is it the public schooling? I did grow up in Illinois. I thought we had a pretty good educational system--it was a Chicago suburb. ???)

Man, I feel so freaking stupid. Every time I visit this place. :)

[Lurker]

The Cold War is often times referred to as World War III. It's just that there wasn't all that much shooting, at least not directly between us and the Soviets.

I know I know....Korea....Viet Nam...Dominican Republic...Grenada...

BTW this war started in 1979 and Iran fired the first shots.

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[Luke Skyfreeper]

Okay, what other World War did I miss? Is it the public schooling? I did grow up in Illinois. I thought we had a pretty good educational system--it was a Chicago suburb. ???

The one that lasted for more than 40 years, between Communism and the West. As I recall, the West won. Relatively few actual shots were fired (beyond Korea, Vietnam, Kampuchea, and various other third-world locations) because if they had been, the world itself would've been destroyed wholesale.

This one, the Fourth, is between radical Islam and everybody else. Unfortunately, some of the other players haven't clearly allied themselves on the correct side yet. They're still playing games. Also unfortunately, unlike the Dark Side in WWIII, the Dark Side in this war has no sense of self-preservation, so MAD is no deterrent. In fact, the only thing that will keep them from coming for us is if we either kill them first, or find an effective way to destroy their ideology.