The lesser of two weevils?

World War III Has Begun??

In an article today Michael Goodwin of the New York Daily news says that World War III has started. Unfortunately I cannot really disagree. He sites Iraq, North Korea, Iran and Palestine as signs that this is so. Again, I cannot disagree. However for those of us who grew up in the Reagan era this is not exactly the picture that came to mind when we pondered the next global war. I can only speak for myself, but I always pictured missles flying from east to west and vise versa and it all being over in a day. Thusly we all could be at least a little secure in the idea that nobody wanted to kill the world, and so it went. The terrorist of this world war wears no uniform, sits in no particular state house, has NO regard for human life (even their own). As I say this it sounds cliche even to me, but they are barbarians. The scary part is that with this new army the forces that would undermine a free way of life do not have to fire one missle, declare war, or even act aggressively as a nation. Countries like China, North Korea and Iran can use these thugs as ghost marauders to further their causes. "But they are not even affiliated" you might say. Yes, but they do not have to be. Say you and the homeless guy on anycorner USA both have a problem with your neighbor "Sam". You buy homeless guy a burger one day and comiserate about how much you both dislike Sam. Homeless guy gets fed, he now knows you hate Same too and feeling well fed and strong, one day decides to beat the sense out of Sam on his way home from work. You are squeaky clean, everybody blames the homeless guy and Sam gets put in his place (or so you hope). Its a crude example but this is how things work in our world. The question is how do you combat an enemy that has no conscience and world leaders with no sense of decency or morality? Do you treat them like bullies and smack them around before they smack you around? Well, I would like to say yes but this enemy is less like a bully and a lot more like that psycho special ed. kid who does not have the sense to know when enough is enough. You hit him first and no matter how badly it hurts him he will come back at you until he is out cold or you are. You can't reason with him, because he has no sense of any kind, you can't walk away, and you can't expect him to know when he's beaten and go on about his own business. The only logical thing to do is remove his ability to inflict harm on you or anyone else.

Now, the passive among us might say that is not an option, but consider this point and then decide; If you do not act first, you die and everything about your way of life dies with you. Your ideals, morality, love, and yes even your desire for peace! I'm not sure if enough of us are willing to beat the snot out of a retarded kid, but that would definitely be the lesser of two weevils =o)

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Terrorist Mentality
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Update: 07/11/2006

India Train Bombings... Any questions?