World War 3?

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**easysauce**

Pacific wrote:

The final verse of the Rudyard Kipling poem springs to mind, 'The Young British Soldier', which was written in the late 19th century.

When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains,
And the women come out to cut up what remains,
Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains
An' go to your Gawd like a soldier.

An area of the world that has proved impossible to control or pacify, going back over the centuries if not millennia.

One can assume that history books are not read, or else are understood and those behind the direction of armed forces just don't care.

I cannot exalt this enough, thanks for the good read.

The wheel of time spins round and round, but no one seems to notice.

**Torga_DW**

DarkLink wrote:
People in the middle east have been murdering each other en mass for ethnic and religious reasons for thousands of years. It won't stop anytime soon.

timetowaste85 wrote:
I think the founding fathers had the right of it. Let the world deal with themselves unless it's a direct threat against America, case by case basis. Like Hitler was. " 'Murica needs oil" is not a direct threat. Costs may go up, but it keeps our boys alive.

Then again, my company pays for my gas. So I may be biased.

You do realize that if we wanted oil, we would have left Saddam in power, right? For one, we basically all out oil from the middle east comes from the Saudis (and we actually get very little oil from the middle east, most of our oil is domestic, or from another country in the Americas). We don't, and never did, get much oil from Iraq. And we knew that removing Saddam was only going to destabilize the region, there was zero reason to think that removing him would somehow make what little oil we get from the middle east more secure. To top it off, Saddam tried to bribe us with an obscenely good deal on oil to prevent an invasion. Ifwe actually cared about oil in the middle east, we would have put on a show about his WMDs, slapped him on the wrist, and walked away with gas at $2.00 a gallon for the next decade or three. And we did actually find WMDs in Iraq, btw.

You can't take more than a cursory glance at oil politics and still entertain the notion that we invaded Iraq for the money.

America knew saddam had WMDs and with good reason: america were the ones who were supplying them to him. As you say, oil wasn't the issue.

I think it's too soon for a WW3 guessing game, but i'm going to say america will be prominently involved in the next one.

**sarpedons-right-hand**

If any one is interested and can be bothered to find it, ITV in the UK made a brilliant one off drama called 'My Boy Jack', which details The story of Kiplings son going off to war and dying horribly. Daniel Radcliffe played the boy and was quite good if memory serves. You guys should check it out.
As for the Middle East thing, well, that gak goes down all the time and is no different than it was centuries ago. People using religion as an excuse to be horrible to one another. Yay.

**KalashnikovMarine**

http://overpassesforamerica.com/?p=5589

Interesting... the French, Jordanians, Egyptians, Saudis and Israelis setting up a Feth Iran tag team apparently, and allegedly the Saudis have nukes courtesy of Pakistan.

**Stonebeard**

KalashnikovMarine wrote:
http://overpassesforamerica.com/?p=5589

Interesting... the French, Jordanians, Egyptians, Saudis and Israelis setting up a Feth Iran tag team apparently, and allegedly the Saudis have nukes courtesy of Pakistan.

Couldn't for the life of me figure out why anyone would do such a thing. I mean, they seem like such nice guys.

**Jihadin**

KalashnikovMarine wrote:
http://overpassesforamerica.com/?p=5589

Interesting... the French, Jordanians, Egyptians, Saudis and Israelis setting up a Feth Iran tag team apparently, and allegedly the Saudis have nukes courtesy of Pakistan.

Well it still does not interfere with negotiation with Iran Nuke talk