The Coming World War

Self | 08/05/2002 | Prysson

[elfman2]

"I grow tired of people ignorant of the truth trying to tell me that Islam is a religion of Peace"

I think that phrase just is a duplicitous tool in this war, designed to cripple accusations that we are engaging in a war on Islam, and the damage it does us is negligible. This war involves many such deceptions in order to deny or enemy assistance from sympathizers around the world who are likely to gravitate toward the underdog and view our wealth as somehow being oppressive.

We don’t need the rest of the world to defeat these facists, but we don't need them all aligned against us. Hang tough, we're just reloading…

[pgkdan]

bump for later reading

[Delbert]

Well written, I will give you a A-, :) ...just kidding, it was good and I agree with you. Religion of Peace is a sham, the sooner we as a country and the rest of western civilization admit it the better off we are. I believe that Islam in itself is Satans answer to christianity. Satan knows that he can not and will not defeat Christ, so Islam is a clever deception to drag as many poor souls to hell with him as possible. Islam is The Antichrist.

[cynicom]

Islam keeps looking to the West, however, as in all scenarios of possible "wars", there is another unknown factor. That unknown is India and China, billions of people, non Islamic, and they will have something to say about the makeup of future wars.

[El Gato]

They are not powerful enough to defeat us, nor are they patient enough to wait until they are strong enough, before they strike. And in the end they do not understand us enough to know that they would be well advised not to

Kind of reminds you of Larry Niven's "Kzin" or Star Trek's "Klingons" doesn't it?

[Publius6961]

Because a world wanted to insist that peace was possible despite every peace of evidence that it was not.

I agree with everything except this part.
Spellcheck is our enemy...

[Ancesthntr]

We don’t need the rest of the world to defeat these facists, but we don't need them all aligned against us. Hang tough, we're just reloading…

Agreed, we don't need more enemies. However, it doesn't look much to me like we're "reloading." For starters, we are way short on personnel, but we've got a nation of 280 million. Simple (if rather difficult, politically) solution: restart the draft. Roosevelt did it in 1940, in a nation full of isolationists. And, BTW, that was an election year, the first and only time that a president was running for a third term. Despite the fact that I despise FDR, at least he did what was right then, and had the guts to stand up to his political opponents. Where is Bush on this score? (/sarcastic rhetorical question).

Another shortfall is in expendable war supplies. We are woefully short of ammunition, as well as the precision munitions that the media love so much. Where are the huge buys of ammo? Why is Israeli ammo getting VERY hard to get for us civilians, but there is no shortage of ammo or components for domestic stuff? I guess that the Israelis are a bit more worried than we are (and they have reason to be - but at least they are preparing).

Yet another shortage is in the raw materials of war, especially those that aren't available, or available enough, domestically. There haven't been any big purchases of strategic materials, or else the commodities markets would have noticed. We sold a bunch of strategic metals after the Cold War, and haven't replaced them. Where are our oil reserves (which MIGHT be necessary, since we're likely to be tangling with the people who control the spigots)?

Finally, how is industry gearing up? The short answer is that it largely isn't. Even with "primitive" WW2 weapons it required a good deal of lead time to convert peacetime factories to war production; with today's weapons the lead time is far greater. Also, we have a big shortage of skilled machinists, if not for the existing civilian economy then certainly for the demands that a war (or war mobilization) would place on the labor pool. The factories, machine tools and skilled manpower can't be ordered on the Internet - long lead times are necessary, and we haven't begun the process.

I know, I know, all the preparation is supposed to be secret - with all due respect to anyone holding that view, B$! This is an open society - there is no way to keep news of a massive buildup secret, so there isn't one. I wish that I could be more optimistic on this front, but facts prevent that. We are, to quote a former president, in deep doo-doo. And what the Hell is going to happen if China decides to take advantage of us being tied down in the Mideast?

[Ancesthntr]

Thanks for this article/opinion piece. I wonder if our politicians are aware of this. Perhaps they are, but they choose to ignore it because there aren't many votes in acting Churchillian.

[Ancesthntr]

Care to comment, oh oracle of Islamic and Chinese conflict?

[muawiyah]

How utterly silly. There were no Franks when the Islamic Empire was first established. There were Visigothic kingdoms in Spain.

But the most preposterous idea is that the Franks had anything to do with the Reconquista in Spain. That was, in fact, done by the Cornish. The Gallegos had stopped the Moslems from entering NW Spain. Later on, when the Britons were being driven out of Brittain by the Anglo-Saxon hordes, they moved back to Spain from whence their ancestors had first come in or about 700 BC. Many also went to Brittany and restarted civilization on the European mainland.

King San Cho Noe (Sancho I) established Castile and Leon. But for the Franks and their kindred, his heirs could probably have taken the whole of Europe and organized a proper campaign to drive the Moslems out of not only Spain but also North Africa, Egypt, Syria and even Turkey!

Credit should be given where due.

[Wolfstar]

"It saddens me, and angers me some as well, that so many will be lost..."

From this particular cynic's corner, the prospect doesn't sadden me. I say bring it on. Don't the enviros keep telling us there are too many people on the planet? Well I say let's blow it all up and let the survivors, if any, figure out how to start over. The enviros, what's left of them, will be happy there are far fewer people. The Libertarians will be happy there's no government. If the rest of us are lucky, no Dems/Leftists will survive. And we can all be happy there are no more taxes.

[Prysson]

I never said that the Reconquista of Spain had anything to do with the Franks. The initial muslim incursion into Europe however did in fact spead with little or no stop until 732 when at the battle of Tours When Charles MArtel and his FRANKS defeated the Muslims. By 756 the Islamic invaders had been completely expelled from France. Spain was another matter altogether. King Sancho I of Spain was not even born for another 400 years and had nothing to do whit stopping the initial incursion into France in 719. Next time you want to give credit where it is due make certain of your timelines...not to mention the context of teh argument you are speaking against.

[Prysson]

Just an opinionated member of this online community. Curious though. I am not certain in what context you choose to make you comment.

Do you mean "who the hell do you think you are writing a piece such as that." Do you simply mean " I am not familiar with you" If you could elaborate I might be able to better answer your inquiry.

[Prysson]

I could not agree more. I just grow tired of uneducated Amercians parroting the tripe when they havent even ever read the Quran.

[Prysson]

Ack! you are so right. How embarassing for me. Sorry for the misspell. But I stand behind the sentiment.

[Billy_bob_bob]

Oh, we have TONS of manufacturing capability. It's just all been moved to China, that's all. No problem. We'll just call our friends in China and have them build all of the munitions we need. We'll just dial them up and......strange, no answer? Well, try again later.

[AAABEST]

I usually don't give newbie vanities a second glance.

This is an exception. It's very well written, informative and highly interesting.

Most excellent job friend.

[Eternal_Bear]

What about Charles Martel who fought the Moors at Tours in Central France? Clovis the Frankish king established France as a nation before Muhammed was born and what about Charlemagne's expedition into Spain? You need to read more history. Yes, the Visigoths were in Spain and Southern France but they didn't stop the Moors. It is true that the Christians in their northern mountain strongholds did hold the line but to call them Cornish is absurd. They were a mixture of Galicians, Asturians, Cantabrians and Basques. No true scholar refers to them as Cornish.