Originally posted by Arkansas
This is real simple. THE USA CAN NOT AFFORD THE WAR MACHINE.

Very good point!

Obama has definitely hit the ball back to many courts in the way he's used this though. The fact that one of the major issues between Russia and the US has been removed. The fact that one of the corner stones of the US's defensive strategy against a future 'nuclear Iran' has been removed. The fact that he has made a direct move away from Bush foreign policy. Plus he is fronting up to those people who go down to their local town halls to debate healthcare, wearing gun's, again. Brave man or sacrificial lamb?

I hope people dont have to be drafted as much i am willing you fight for my country for what ever reason, i dont want to lose my friends and family.

theres already a generation on men being lost lets not continue .

Let hope things stay peaceful.

Would anyone care for a guess on the percent of isreal actually gonig to war with iran and allies being drafted to help out.

WW3 won't happen for years. It would be a sure suicide for the West. You have Russia, China, India, Pakistan, North Korea, Iran and the Muslim world vs U.S. U.K. Israel and NATO. It is far too dangerous for the West to start anything without at least trying to ruin the relationship between those powers mentioned. Though the U.S. does have strategic locations throughout the world for attack, North Korea would attack the South to unite Korea, China would bomb Taiwan if the opportunity is there, but also Japan would be possibly harmed as well, India and Pakistan could take the chance to take out the U.S. out of Afghanistan and out of the Middle East, Iran can attack Israel, WHICH would also give a golden opportunity for the Muslim world to attack Israel, Russia could take anyone, given that we do not know there capabilities truly. Countries in South America could also see opportunities for attack each other or the U.S.

The U.S. will not let it happen until they can attack those countries from the inside and bring them down, then attack from the outside.

It will not happen. It is all propaganda and hype - once again. And let us not forget that it is not countries that declare wars - it is the elites of those countries who do so.

Originally posted by AgnosticX
When I start to look at things like this it tends to make me wonder if the mainstream media has perpetuated another lie here in the states that may be the underlying cause of some of these problems...

Maybe...

Just maybe...

Communism isn't dead.

I know that the majority of people believe that communism has been dead and gone for a while now, but if you look at the countries positioning themselves together doesn't it seem a tad odd that the former communists countries are all aligning themselves?

Its alive and well here in the U.S. , we elected "it" into power

[edit on 18-9-2009 by I_am_Spartacus]

Originally posted by DevilJin
WW3 won't happen for years. It would be a sure suicide for the West. You have Russia, China, India, Pakistan, North Korea, Iran and the Muslim world vs U.S. U.K. Israel and NATO. It is far too dangerous for the West to start anything without at least trying to ruin the relationship between those powers mentioned. Though the U.S. does have strategic locations throughout the world for attack, North Korea would attack the South to unite Korea, China would bomb Taiwan if the opportunity is there, but also Japan would be possibly harmed as well, India and Pakistan could take the chance to take out the U.S. out of Afghanistan and out of the Middle East,

Pakistan and India are not allies, they're enemies. Why would you think that India would side with Pakistan against the US?

With things going on like it is now, I don't really think that WW3 will be the same kind of war we had back with WW2, I think this time it will be really diffrent.

I mean even now we might already in the middle of WW3, or the other way round WW3 might not happend again at all, may be something else even worst will happend before that, or that humanity suddenly are united which I really dout.

^^

[edit on 18-9-2009 by BlackRosEmyth]

Although your points are valid in the OP you are as guilty as the MSM for contribution to the worlds current situation..

Why was this thread not called 'Peace Watch'?? , uk, u.s blah blah..

And although you join the dots well though current events and historical events it is not a given this will happen at all. infact the first average joe will know about WW3 is when the 2 minute warning hits the T.V

Why? coz if it was no one woulda listened ... and thats where the problem lies, until the average person bravely stands up and shouts PEACE PEACE!!
we will be forever drowned out by the calls for war.

The next war will be resource linked .. most are ...

People don't seem to realize 2 or 3 high yield Nukes ANYWHERE on the planet will spell doom for all.. and this is the biggest deterent.. M.A.D

russians love there children too just remember that....

Originally posted by Exuberant1

Originally posted by dallas18
here is Ahmadinejad denying the holocaust

*And stop abusing the H-card. Those poor people deserve better. Respect the memory of them, don't politicize it.

It seems to me that he's the politicizing it in this case.