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WW3? What you are asking is whether the US will face a revolution. The left tried it back in the 60's.
Quiz: Why are most older (70-100 year old) Nat'l Guard armories built like castles?
Back to geography class for you. When you refresh your memory about where Tunisia is, you'll surely realize how non sequitur and ad hominem your comment is here.
Except you made the remark about Muslim countries. My comment had nothing to do about the geographical location of these Muslims. 99% of Tunisia are Muslims. This is about countries wanting democracy, not some sort of imaginary slight against Israel.
Never mind the fact your statement was woefully inaccurate.
Saudi Arabia gives Israel clear skies to attack Iranian nuclear sites - Times Online
You're also ignoring that while not at the best terms at the moment, Israel and Turkey have been on fairly good terms.
We obviously should start thinking about pulling troops back to defensible borders....
Ya just never know.....
WW3? What you are asking is whether the US will face a revolution. The left tried it back in the 60's.
Quiz: Why are most older (70-100 year old) Nat'l Guard armories built like castles?
Because they were built before the Age of Blitzkrieg warfare. When you could expect to hold up in a fort and fend of an Enemy.
Not an option with today's weapons. The mobility And Destructive ability of Offensive warfare makes any Fixed position Defenses rather pointless.
WW3? What you are asking is whether the US will face a revolution. The left tried it back in the 60's.
Quiz: Why are most older (70-100 year old) Nat'l Guard armories built like castles?
Because they were built before the Age of Blitzkrieg warfare. When you could expect to hold up in a fort and fend of an Enemy.
Not an option with today's weapons. The mobility And Destructive ability of Offensive warfare makes any Fixed position Defenses rather pointless.
Oh well, with American unemployment so high, I guess that all the young kids can join the army, get basic training & experience, then join one of the private security companies and get sent all over the world to enforce stability.
I don't know exactly where in the Constitution it says that America is to be a world dominant military empire, but that seems to be the way it's been going for the past 50 years or so.
We really should consider invading Switzerland before it's too late.
January 10, 2011
"Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Doug Shulman closed out 2010 by dining out one last time on the success of the agencys recently-concluded enforcement effort against Switzerlands premier financial institution, UBS AG.
The case targeted the bank and thousands of UBS clients, caught red-handed in a long-running fraud hiding as much as $20 billion in secret undeclared accounts and earning UBS up to $200 million a year in ill-begotten profits.
Taxpayers understand that the risk of being caught hiding assets offshore has increased significantly, Shulman told an assembly of lawyers, corporate tax executives and accountants at the 23rd Annual Institution on Current Issues in International Taxation in Washington in December.
Shulman said the agency is now carrying the fight against offshore tax abuse well beyond Switzerland and UBS by replicating tactics honed in the UBS investigation: Cleaning up abuses of the past (Bush-years) and then mining and leveraging the data we receive to mount a greater attack on the abuse.
Shulman also said the IRS is seriously considering launching a new special amnesty program to induce even more U.S. tax-avoiders with offshore accounts to come in from the cold (the IRS estimates there are some 2 million Americans with foreign accounts, many of which are undeclared, costing the U.S. Treasury an estimated $100 billion in lost tax revenues because of offshore tax abuses)."
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World Wide Civil Unrest - World War III?
You are over reaching FF. There has been and always will be civil unrest as long as power is withheld from the populace and miss used by those that believe they have some divine mandate to run the world or any part of it where populations are not treated with respect and the rights they believe are being withheld.
Do you really think Albanians are going to join up wit Egyptians and so on?
There will be at least one kind of universal uprising and that will be long and slow as the common man finally understands that the tyrants and the self appointed and the Religious Fundamentalists need to be thrown out on their asses from the seats of power.
As far as the Europeans, African, Mid East and central Asian countries go...they are caught up in such a clusterfuck of old grievances that there will be no settling any of it in our lifetime. Let em fight it out..I don't care if they all butcher themselves. There are too many humans on the planet anyway...let the stupid ones kill themselves off.
Well, if one believes in the Bible, then we are headed towards a very distinct future that has been spoken of already.
And with each year that passes, more and more of those thousands year old speakings become reality. Left wing atheists still deny this. Yet, predicted events keep becoming real history.
World Wide Civil Unrest - World War III?
You are over reaching FF. There has been and always will be civil unrest as long as power is withheld from the populace and miss used by those that believe they have some divine mandate to run the world or any part of it where populations are not treated with respect and the rights they believe are being withheld.
Do you really think Albanians are going to join up wit Egyptians and so on?
There will be at least one kind of universal uprising and that will be long and slow as the common man finally understands that the tyrants and the self appointed and the Religious Fundamentalists need to be thrown out on their asses from the seats of power.
As far as the Europeans, African, Mid East and central Asian countries go...they are caught up in such a clusterfuck of old grievances that there will be no settling any of it in our lifetime. Let em fight it out..I don't care if they all butcher themselves. There are too many humans on the planet anyway...let the stupid ones kill themselves off.
Over reaching? Really? How am I over reaching anything as I have not provided my opinion as to the significance of the current events. All I have done is compare them with the historical context.
If you think they don't fit the historical context, please provide your insight and perspective as to why they don't fit the historical context.
Who in their wildest dreams a year or two before it happened would have seen two small countries, Germany and Japan, join in a military compact with each other? Who is their wildest dreams a year or two before it happened would have seen the USA as an ally with the U.S.S.R.?
And then tell me how a North Korea, an Iran, a Venzuela, and a Communist China, all with friendly relationships with each other, would not raise eyebrows of concern should they form a military alliance?
World Wide Civil Unrest - World War III?
You are over reaching FF. There has been and always will be civil unrest as long as power is withheld from the populace and miss used by those that believe they have some divine mandate to run the world or any part of it where populations are not treated with respect and the rights they believe are being withheld.
Do you really think Albanians are going to join up wit Egyptians and so on?
There will be at least one kind of universal uprising and that will be long and slow as the common man finally understands that the tyrants and the self appointed and the Religious Fundamentalists need to be thrown out on their asses from the seats of power.
As far as the Europeans, African, Mid East and central Asian countries go...they are caught up in such a clusterfuck of old grievances that there will be no settling any of it in our lifetime. Let em fight it out..I don't care if they all butcher themselves. There are too many humans on the planet anyway...let the stupid ones kill themselves off.
Over reaching? Really? How am I over reaching anything as I have not provided my opinion as to the significance of the current events. All I have done is compare them with the historical context.
If you think they don't fit the historical context, please provide your insight and perspective as to why they don't fit the historical context.
Who in their wildest dreams a year or two before it happened would have seen two small countries, Germany and Japan, join in a military compact with each other? Who is their wildest dreams a year or two before it happened would have seen the USA as an ally with the U.S.S.R.?
And then tell me how a North Korea, an Iran, a Venzuela, and a Communist China, all with friendly relationships with each other, would not raise eyebrows of concern should they form a military alliance?
Perhaps I missed your main focus. I have to admit I didn't even read your whole OP in detail. I skimmed it. My bad. I'm still not really sure how the OP title fits your text.
Guessing all the possible alliances and trouble spots is much akin to herding cats. There are still as there always have been countries in flux and transition. Ya Venezuela surprised me too..and I'm familiar with that part of the world. BUT ..this is the age of super communication and what Chavez see's as a benefit for his country may be valid from his standpoint. We may not like it but it really isn't our call. There are about as many different reasons as there are conflicts and future conflicts. That's what the CIA gets paid to keep track of and either they are dropping the ball or keeping it to themselves.
In any case our citizens are never the first to find out.
Quiz: Why are most older (70-100 year old) Nat'l Guard armories built like castles?
Because they were built before the Age of Blitzkrieg warfare. When you could expect to hold up in a fort and fend of an Enemy.
Not an option with today's weapons. The mobility And Destructive ability of Offensive warfare makes any Fixed position Defenses rather pointless.
yes, mobile defense and offense is the name of the game unless someone throws a tac or dirty nuke, then I guess the gloves come off.
Over reaching? Really? How am I over reaching anything as I have not provided my opinion as to the significance of the current events. All I have done is compare them with the historical context.
If you think they don't fit the historical context, please provide your insight and perspective as to why they don't fit the historical context.
Who in their wildest dreams a year or two before it happened would have seen two small countries, Germany and Japan, join in a military compact with each other? Who is their wildest dreams a year or two before it happened would have seen the USA as an ally with the U.S.S.R.?
And then tell me how a North Korea, an Iran, a Venzuela, and a Communist China, all with friendly relationships with each other, would not raise eyebrows of concern should they form a military alliance?
Perhaps I missed your main focus. I have to admit I didn't even read your whole OP in detail. I skimmed it. My bad. I'm still not really sure how the OP title fits your text.
Guessing all the possible alliances and trouble spots is much akin to herding cats. There are still as there always have been countries in flux and transition. Ya Venezuela surprised me too..and I'm familiar with that part of the world. BUT ..this is the age of super communication and what Chavez see's as a benefit for his country may be valid from his standpoint. We may not like it but it really isn't our call. There are about as many different reasons as there are conflicts and future conflicts. That's what the CIA gets paid to keep track of and either they are dropping the ball or keeping it to themselves.
In any case our citizens are never the first to find out.
In this age of super communications, I think citizens may actually be aware of stuff and it takes awhile for the C.I.A. to catch up. I know the citizens are quite often way ahead of the news media.
The point is, I don't want us to stick our heads in the sand or pretend everything is just hunky dory wonderful or business as usual here in the USA and/or in the world when our gut tells us to be cautious. I don't want another holocaust. I don't want another cold war resulting in the emaciation and death of tens of millions. Can you Huggy or me Foxfyre stop it? Of course not. But the more that are aware, the less likely stuff is to fall between the cracks.
It's that same old saw: Those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it. The way things are shaping up--the USA is weakened from a prolonged recession and is no doubt perceived as weak. Same in the years leading up to WWII yes? The perception that there is no real superpower in existence.
You have rogue governments who intend nobody any good building up their armies, resources, fuel dumps, etc. etc. etc. and becoming friendly with each other.
Much ado about nothing? Maybe. Maybe even probably.
But I don't think we should assume that and not be paying attention.
Perhaps I missed your main focus. I have to admit I didn't even read your whole OP in detail. I skimmed it. My bad. I'm still not really sure how the OP title fits your text.
Guessing all the possible alliances and trouble spots is much akin to herding cats. There are still as there always have been countries in flux and transition. Ya Venezuela surprised me too..and I'm familiar with that part of the world. BUT ..this is the age of super communication and what Chavez see's as a benefit for his country may be valid from his standpoint. We may not like it but it really isn't our call. There are about as many different reasons as there are conflicts and future conflicts. That's what the CIA gets paid to keep track of and either they are dropping the ball or keeping it to themselves.
In any case our citizens are never the first to find out.
In this age of super communications, I think citizens may actually be aware of stuff and it takes awhile for the C.I.A. to catch up. I know the citizens are quite often way ahead of the news media.
The point is, I don't want us to stick our heads in the sand or pretend everything is just hunky dory wonderful or business as usual here in the USA and/or in the world when our gut tells us to be cautious. I don't want another holocaust. I don't want another cold war resulting in the emaciation and death of tens of millions. Can you Huggy or me Foxfyre stop it? Of course not. But the more that are aware, the less likely stuff is to fall between the cracks.
It's that same old saw: Those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it. The way things are shaping up--the USA is weakened from a prolonged recession and is no doubt perceived as weak. Same in the years leading up to WWII yes? The perception that there is no real superpower in existence.
You have rogue governments who intend nobody any good building up their armies, resources, fuel dumps, etc. etc. etc. and becoming friendly with each other.
Much ado about nothing? Maybe. Maybe even probably.
But I don't think we should assume that and not be paying attention.
I'm not sure that the biggest threat to world stability might not be financial abuses like we have just endured. Not all dangerous secrets and goings on are grass roots and political in nature. Think of the general harm caused by the inner circle of financial giants on the rest of the world. When they fuck around and end up crashing whole economies and there are MILLIONS put out of work as a result ...if you ask me that is as good a genesis of unrest as any.
A review of history in the early 20th century shows general civil unrest.
Widespread unemployment, unstable money supplies and other resources, and general disatisfaction with unresponsive authoritarian government led to increasing pockets of unrest in Europe, most especially Germany, in the Communist countries, and led to overthrow of governments resulting in even more oppressive regime seizing power. Economies were destablized; currencies were put at risk; and opportunistic nations looked for ways to capitalize on the unrest.
Result: World War I and World War II.
Now we see riots in Barcelona, in France, growing unrest in the UK, in Albania, and now in the Middle East with widespread government protests in Egypt and Jordan who, not insignificantly, are the only allies Israel has in that area.
Today oil is rising drastically and the markets are plunging as investors scramble to protect their assets in the fact of a possible civil war in Egypt alone.
And we have North Korea, China, Iran, Venezuela, and a few other places, all friendly to each other, and none the true friend of the Western World possibly looking for ways to capitalize on the unrest. Certainly Hamas and Hezbollah are watching and will likely make a move if they feel that world attention is diverted from Israel.
Are we moving to the brink of World War III?
World War 3? Well, if it does happen, I guess all I can say is, I'll be among the military members. I can't really say my feelings on it, I mean, if someone bombs the US and we find out it really was them, then let's do it, but honestly, I doubt that is how a major war will start. I understand people opposing it, but I personally do not claim to know whether we are better off without a conflict or not. I just hope the economy can get better for the common man. I have NO idea about economics, I took Honors Economics last semester and that consisted of 'self-finance' basically teaching kids how to not screw themselves with credit cards, which anyone with common sense (at least too me) should know how NOT to do.
I hope that the world changes, I would not want to start a family in this economy, but I also know I am going to do my best to be the best for the country I was born & raised in. My opinion is this: What happens, happens, and all I can say is I am doing my best to educate myself, and learn from others, and better myself daily. I know it sounds corny, but that is the best I have.
