Friday, August 11, 2006

The disquieting reality of World War III

Rattling the Cage: Regaining our faith in war
Larry Derfner, THE JERUSALEM POST
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1154525842078&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FPrinter

[T]hese [armed conflicts] are just the local fronts of the war we're preparing ourselves for. The developing consensus here is that it's only a matter of time until Israel, preferably fighting alongside the US, will have no choice but to go to war against Syria and Iran, and maybe against other Muslim enemies as well. Call it World War III or World War IV, that's what we're looking at, and more likely sooner than later - a no-choice war of survival against "Islamofascism" wherever it exists.

This is not a far-fetched possibility in the slightest.

It's not that Israelis like war, it's that they've regained their belief in war as the only solution, as their only salvation, and this belief may be stronger in them now than it's ever been before. It comes in the wake of their belief in unilateralism, which came in the wake of their (qualified) belief in the peace process.

Life in the Middle East is a bitch.

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