Menu
What's new
Troll Kingdom

This is a sample guest message. Register a free account today to become a member! Once signed in, you'll be able to participate on this site by adding your own topics and posts, as well as connect with other members through your own private inbox!

Do you get the feeling that we are about to enter WWIII

If you are speaking of the religious-culture war of Islam against the West (as they have learned in their textbooks for the last 30 years), then you are correct and more aware than I had imagined you to be.
 
No World War III, although I think it likely within the next few decades for Israel and Iran to have a nuclear exchange.
 
The Question said:
...then WW3 actually started as a Civil war here in the U.S., and the opening volleys were fired from university campuses. ;)
Click to expand...

This is why I say that Islam will win. We are fighting ourselves from within. The enemy has free reign to attack and we're helping them.
 
Cranky Bastard said:
This is why I say that Islam will win. We are fighting ourselves from within. The enemy has free reign to attack and we're helping them.
Click to expand...

If this turns out to be the case, it will suck in a very special way. A writer I admire once said that the 9/11 attacks were "like being bitten by a rat out of the dustbin of history". If there's going to be another world war, I'd rather it be over socio-political issues than religious ones. That's a little like saying you'd rather have polonium-210 in your coffee than hemlock, sure, but I'd like to at least cling to the hope that our conflicts, however devastating, actually show some overall progress as a species. So far, it has, but it's a glacial progress: One step back for every two steps forward.

Then again maybe we need an all-out religious world war to cleanse us of that kind of pious myopia once and for all. But it wouldn't stop with the defeat of Islam.
 
Sadistic Bastard said:
India and Pakistan, All of Africa, maybe parts of the former Soviet Union (but not Russia) might fight each other. North Korea has nothign to loose, but isn't powerful enough to suck the entire world in. A fight yes, but a "World" War? Nawwwww.
-SB
Click to expand...

If a "limited" nuclear conflict takes place in Asia there will be TREMENDOUS pressure for us to get involved, not only as the only nation who's ever actually used nukes in wartime, but as the only one with an effective first-strike deterrent capability. Question is: Would we learn the lesson of World War I, when a very small conflict spread to an entire continent in a matter of days (and, eventually, to a whole planet) thanks to a domino-effect of treaties and alliances, when old-world thinking combined horribly with new-world weapons for the first time (although the Civil War gave a pretty good preview, but that was over different and IMO more valid issues) for a horror-show the likes of which the world had never seen up to that point? Could we afford to hold off, a la President Wilson's policy? Would we, in this day and age, stand aside and let the aggrieved parties turn each other to glowing ponds of glass?

A significant part of me hopes we would. And yet.
 
Cranky Bastard said:
The next big weapon might be biological. Death without the bang - except for dispersion. What better way to conquer? The neutron bomb was a step in that direction.
Click to expand...

Sounds like a plan --as long as the wind doesn't change.
 
It'll be all about control; about containing the collateral damage.

The next big thing will be robots: Millions of tiny, lethal robots programmed to go after a group of people, or even specific people.

Keep an eye on Japan.
 
I wonder when Gagh is negging someone, does he have both hands on the keyboard? There's obviously a fetish going on here, I guess we're just fortunate he doesn't have a webcam attached during all this. :retard:
 
Ogami said:
I wonder when Gagh is negging someone, does he have both hands on the keyboard? There's obviously a fetish going on here, I guess we're just fortunate he doesn't have a webcam attached during all this. :retard:
Click to expand...

OMG!
 
I would see a religious based war as more of a civil war, or set of wars within several countries (Including the USA).

If it comes to that, we can write off the SF Bay area (sigh).
 
Been there once for my cousin's wedding at the chapel. Other than that, I don't give a shit.

Berkeley should be the terrorists next prime target.
 
The OTHER Bastard, the one The Harlot doesn't sleep with.
Click to expand...

happy0188.gif
 
starguard said:
Do you think it possible?
Click to expand...

Well a Middle Eastern leader did die recently just when the McNaught comet (brightest celestial object in 30 years) made its appearance.

Coincidence? I tend to think so, but the world is full of weakminded individuals who will more likely than not try to fulfill other potheaded predictions.
 
Red Whacker said:
Coincidence? I tend to think so, but the world is full of weakminded individuals who will more likely than not try to fulfill other potheaded predictions.
Click to expand...
Which Bush has been doing since Day One, actually. People laughed at Nancy Reagan's astrologer, but don't seem to have any comment on Bush's repeated insistence that he's destined to start some serious End-of-Days shit.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top