Are we on the brink of a World War 3?

Question

With conflicts in Iraq, Isreal invading Lebannon, and N Korea on the verge of Nuking anyone who pisses them off, are we on the edge of a world war?

Answer 1

I think WWIII started in 1979::
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>This is not very long, but very informative. First you have to read the
>catalogue of events in this brief piece. Then, ask yourself how anyone can
>take the position that all we have to do is bring our troops home from
>Iraq, sit back, reset the snooze alarm, go back to sleep, and no one will
>ever bother us again. In case you missed it, World War III began in
>November 1979... that alarm has been ringing for years.
>
> US Navy Captain Ouimette is the Executive Officer at Naval Air
>Station, Pensacola, Florida. Here is a copy of the speech he gave last
>month. It is an accurate account of why we are in so much trouble today and
>why this action is so necessary.
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>AMERICA NEEDS TO WAKE UP!
>That's what we think we heard on the 11th of September 2001 (When more than
>3,000 Americans were killed). Maybe it was, but I think it should have
>been "Get Out of Bed!" In fact, I think the alarm clock has been buzzing
>since 1979 and we have continued to hit the snooze button and roll over for
>a few more minutes of peaceful sleep since then.
>
>It was a cool fall day in November 1979 in a country going through a
>religious and political upheaval when a group of Iranian students attacked
>and seized the American Embassy in Tehran. This seizure was an outright
>attack on American soil; it was an attack that held the world's most
>powerful country hostage and paralyzed a Presidency. The attack on this
>sovereign U. S. embassy set the stage for events to follow for the next 25
>years.
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>America was still reeling from the aftermath of the Vietnam experience and
>had a serious threat from the Soviet Union when then, President Carter, had
>to do something. He chose to conduct a clandestine raid in the desert. The
>ill-fated mission ended in ruin, but stood as a symbol of America's
>inability to deal with terrorism.
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>America's military had been decimated and down sized/right sized since the
>end of the Vietnam War. A poorly trained, poorly equipped and poorly
>organized military was called on to execute a complex mission that was
>doomed from the start.
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>Shortly after the Tehran experience, Americans began to be kidnapped and
>killed throughout the Middle East. America could do little to protect her
>citizens living and working abroad. The attacks against US soil continued!
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>In April of 1983 a large vehicle packed with high explosives was driven
>into the US Embassy compound in Beirut. When it explodes, it kills 63
>people. The alarm went off again and America hit the Snooze Button once
>more.
>
>Then just six short months later in 1983 a large truck heavily laden down
>with over 2500 pounds of TNT smashed through the main gate of the US Marine
>Corps headquarters in Beirut and 241 US servicemen are killed. America
>mourns her dead and hit the Snooze Button once more.
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>
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> Two months later in December 1983, another truck loaded with explosives
>is driven into the US Embassy in Kuwait, and America continues her slumber.
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>The following year, in September 1984, another van was driven into the gate
>of the US Embassy in Beirut and America slept.
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>Soon the terrorism spreads to Europe. In April 1985 a bomb explodes in a
>restaurant frequented by US soldiers in Madrid.
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>Then in August 1985 a Volkswagen loaded with explosives is driven into the
>main gate of the US Air Force Base at Rhein-Main. 22 are killed and the
>snooze alarm is buzzing louder and louder as US interests are continually
>attacked.
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>Fifty-nine days later in 1985 a cruise ship, the Achille Lauro, is hijacked
>and we watched as an American in a wheelchair is singled out of the
>passenger list and executed.
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>The terrorists then shift their tactics to bombing civilian airliners when
>they bomb TWA Flight 840 in April of 1986 and kill 4. Then in a more
>tragic bombing, they get Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in
>1988, killing 259.
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>Clinton treated these terrorist acts as crimes; in fact we are still trying
>to bring these people to trial. These are acts of war.
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>The wake up alarm is getting louder and louder.
>
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>The terrorists decide to bring the fight to America. In January 1993, two
>CIA agents are shot and killed as they enter CIA headquarters in Langley,
>Virginia.
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>The following month, February 1993, a group of terrorists are arrested
>after a rented van packed with explosives is driven into the underground
>parking garage of the World Trade Center in New York City. Six people are
>killed and over 1000 are injured. Still this is a crime and not an act of
>war? The Snooze button is pressed again.
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> Then in November 1995 a car bomb explodes at a US military complex in
>Riyadh, Saudi Arabia killing seven service men and women.
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>A few months later in June of 1996, another truck bomb explodes only 35
>yards from the US military compound in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. It destroys
>the Khobar Towers, a US Air Force barracks, killing 19 and injuring over
>500. The terrorists are getting braver and smarter as they see that America
>does not respond decisively.
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>They move to coordinate their attacks in simultaneous attacks on two US
>embassies in Kenya and Tanzania . These attacks were planned with
>precision. They kill 224. America responds with cruise missile attacks and
>goes back to sleep.
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>The USS Cole was docked in the port of Aden, Yemen for refueling on 12
>October 2000, when a small craft pulled along side the ship and exploded
>killing 17 US Navy Sailors. Attacking a US War Ship is an act of war, but
>we sent the FBI to investigate the crime and went back to sleep.
>
>And of course you know the events of 11 September 2001. Most Americans
>think this was the first attack against US soil or in America. How wrong
>they are. America has been under a constant attack since 1979 and we chose
>to hit the snooze alarm and roll over and go back to sleep!!!
>
>In the news lately we have seen lots of finger pointing from every high
>official in government over what they knew and what they didn't know. But
>if you've read the papers and paid a little attention I think you can see
>exactly what they knew. You don't have to be in the FBI or CIA or on the
>National Security Council to see the pattern that has been developing since
>1979.
>
>I think we have been in a war for the past 25 years and it will continue
>until we as a people decide enough is enough! America needs to "Get out of
>Bed" and act decisively now. America has been changed forever. We have to
>be ready to pay the price and make the sacrifice to ensure our way of life
>continues. We cannot afford to keep hitting the snooze button again and
>again and roll over and go back to sleep.
>
>After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Admiral Yamamoto said "... it seems all
>we have done is awakened a sleeping giant." This is the message we need to
>disseminate to terrorists around the world.
>
>This is not a political thing to be hashed out in an election year. This
>is an AMERICAN thing. This is about our Freedom and the Freedom of our
>children in years to come.
>
>
> Remember, Freedom is not free. There was a price to obtain it and
>a bigger price to maintain it. The enemy will not negotiate. The enemy is
>bent on killing every American they can--all of us if possible. The enemy
>is seeking world domination. The enemy will behead you, your children and
>your neighbors. You cannot negotiate or ignore a rabid dog. You have to
>put it down.
>
>
>If you understand and believe we are at a crucial point in our history
>please forward this to as many people as you can-- especially to the young
>people and all those who dozed off in history class and who seem so quick
>to protest such a necessary military action.
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Answer 2

the pre-lude was 9/11 attack on America. Act I was the US invasion of Iraq.

Act II will be a middle east conflagaration around Israel,Palestine,Syria,Iran axis.

Act III - while US is busy defending Israel, North Korea will take the opportunity to invade the South and China will takeover Taiwan...leading to nuclear showdown similar to the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Act IV - will be the breakdown of the "system", loss in confidence of US economy, long gas lines at the pump, Constitutional rights abolished

Act V - the end...who knows how it will end, but Einstein said World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones....

Answer 3

Beginning to look that way, isn't it? With China and Russia taking Iran's and N. Korea's sides, there just precious little Uncle Sam can do alone, thereby making it necessary for other nations to join together against them. Taking any guesses as to how accurate the Biblical predictions about the End Times might be?

Answer 4

no, were not, because Iran has virtually no allies to back them up, exept for the U.S. with Bush in power, everyone hates N. Korea, and the conflict in Iraq is going to be over soon, i hope. There cant be a WWIII without allies to the countries that will start it, and Iraq, Isreal, Lebanon, and N. Korea have virtually no allies

Answer 5

Israel is attacking everycountry around them basically, they have the US support, Britain backs the US, North Korea is giving millions to Palestinians, Palestinians have had enough of Israels occupation, Hezbollah has the support of Lebanon, Hamas now has the support of Palestine, peace talks in the mideast have been shut off, seems that every country is now "testing" distance on their nuclear missiles...even Taiwan. The possibility of a WWIII is HIGHLY likely at the rate which wars are spreading.

Answer 6

I think we're already involved in WW3, dude. Look around - if this isn't global conflict (although not on a massive scale), then what is?

Answer 7

ISRAEL IS NOT INVADING LEBANON..ISRAEL IS BOMBING CERTAIN PARTS, OF LEBANON..HEZBOLLAH HAVE CONTROL OF SEVERAL CITIES ALONG THE LEBANESE/ ISRAEL BORDER.THEY HAVE ALSO PEOPLE IN THE LEBANESE GOVERNMENT..HEZBOLLAH ARE KNOWN TERRORISTS.. WHO HAVE NEVER GAVE UP THEIR WEAPONS..AND WHO HAVE ALWAYS HAD A HATRED FOR ISRAEL.."GOOD MOVE OF LEBANON'S GOVERNMENT TO GIVE THEM CONTROL OF BORDER CITIES NEXT TO ISRAEL"..HEZBOLLAH CROSSED INTO ISRAEL ATTACKED AND KILLED 8 ISRAELI SOLDIERS ON BORDER PATROL.AND CAPTURED TWO SOLDIERS ALIVE..ALL DONE IN SUPPORT OF THE PALESTINIAN TERRORISTS WHO HAVE THE SAME HATE FOR ISRAEL.. AS DO THE HEZBOLLAH TERRORISTS.. WHO ARE IN TURN BACKED BY SYRIA AND IRAN..MAKES YOU WONDER DONT IT.
UNLESS THESE LAST TWO COUNTRIES GO AND DO SOMETHING STUPID AND START FIRING AT ISRAEL.. WW3 IS STILL NOT ON THE HORIZON..BUT THERE IS A WAR JUST WAITING TO HAPPEN.. EAST V WEST.. JUST WATCH THIS SPACE.. ITS ON THE WHITE BOARD FOR FUTURE REVIEW..

Answer 8

just put up a world map and mark all points of conflict and possible conflicts. very possible but it has been possible for a half a century now.

Answer 9

Yes we are , it will happen less than 30 years passed.Probably it will happen between muslims and christians.

Answer 10

No.

This is all caused by the Jihadis being violent. Once we kill all them it will be better.

Answer 11

Yes we are,as long as bush is in the office.