It's not perfectly clear when it started. Perhaps it was after the Berlin Wall fell and the Cold War ended. Perhaps it was the first bombing of the World Trade Center, in 1993.
What is clear is that this war has a long fuse and, while we are not in the full-scale combat phase that marked World Wars I and II, we seem to be heading there. The expanding hostilities mean it's time to give this conflict a name, one that focuses the mind and clarifies the big picture.
Well, okay, but does "World War III" really serve that purpose? I don't think so. Y'all have any ideas? And do you think Goodwin is panicking, or is he onto something? I think both. Anyway, it started in 1914. This phase of it is going to be the worst of all, I fear.
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David J. White prefaces his suggestion, "If, as the article suggests, the war is really a reaction against American power (and the Modernity that it supports), and that at the end of the day America might end up going it alone ..."
On those assumptions, I suggest "Mageddon 'r' US".>
Actually, Osama Bin Laden says he hates the US because we support Israel. So the war is really a reaction against Israel.
Or to use your terms Terrence, "Mageddon 'r' Israel". The US just happens to be her chief ally.>
I've come to believe that "WW III" is meant to incorporate anything between 1945 and the eventual nuclear destruction of us all (God forbid). The incremental nature of this war shouldn't necessitate our reluctance to define it as such.>
World War III won't have defined war boundaries.
The US didn't topple Saddam for oil - we give the Saudi's free run of the US for that.
If you study your History - when Islam decides to go to war - it's long, hard and global.>
Interpreter,
You said: "The west wins, and a thousand years of peace follows."
How will we know we've "won"? Can/does any side in a war actually "win"?>
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