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Setting the Stage for World War III. History Repeats Itself. |
http://www.americandaily.com/article/11130
Setting the Stage for World War III. History Repeats Itself.
By Justin Darr (01/09/2006)
For years the term =E2=80=9CWorld War III=E2=80=9D has been tossed about to
describe everything from the international fight against poverty and
disease to most recently the War on Terror. However, as anyone who
actually lived through the World War II era can tell you, the battles
of the past 50 years share little in common with that dark time.
We like to romanticize the World Wars today, looking at the past
through the distorting lens of victory and decades of comfort. But the
reality of a World War is far different. These are conflicts we could
actually lose, requiring the marshalling of our total national
resources and costing the lives of millions. Trusting in our wealth and
power to make such large-scale conflicts things of the past has made us
lackadaisical to the point that we do not see the seeds of the next
World War taking root around us. This arrogance has made us blind as we
repeat the mistakes of the late 1930=E2=80=99s and set the stage for the ne=
xt
World War.
There are numerous parallels between the now forming =E2=80=9CAxis=E2=80=9D=
of
World War III and that of World War II. Both are composed of two
ideological tyrants and one lunatic bent on his personal
aggrandizement. Both developed their military power in violation of
established international treaties. Both had their aggression initially
met with appeasement policies led by an ineffective and corrupt
international body distracted by a surrogate war. Both were emboldened
in their aggression through the acquisition of territory simply through
the threat of force. And, both were formed more out of strategic
necessity than common goals.
The Axis of yesterday composed of the tyrannies of Nazi Germany,
Imperial Japan, and Italy are now Iran, North Korea, and quite possibly
Venezuela under Hugo Chavez.
The first two partners in today=E2=80=99s Axis are easy to identify. Iran=
=E2=80=99s
Islamic fundamentalism and North Korea=E2=80=99s Communism have replaced Na=
zi
Germany=E2=80=99s fascism, and Imperial Japan=E2=80=99s Meiji nationalism
Just as Germany and Japan built their military strength through blatant
violations of the Treaty of Versailles and the 1922 Washington Navel
Conference, Iran and North Korea are pursuing the development of
nuclear weapons in violation of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Led by the League of, now United Nations, these treaty violations have
not been challenged forcibly by the international community, but rather
through a series of conferences bent more on appeasing an aggressive
enemy than stopping them. The results of this appeasement will be the
same today as they were in the 1930=E2=80=99s; the new Axis will
disingenuously participate in these negotiations as a delay tactic
until they develop their military power to the point that the world has
to choose between total war or total surrender to their demands.
The third member of the Axis is not as clear-cut as the first two.
However, when you look at the reality of what an actual World War III
involving the United States, Iran, and North Korea would look like, it
is a bit more obvious.
As with all modern societies, the lifeblood of the United States is
oil. In a large-scale military conflict, Iran would quickly move to
choke the supply of oil from the Mid-East by controlling the narrow
Straight of Hormuz at the southern end of the Persian Gulf. Even the
full force of the United States Armed Forces could do little to prevent
the oil flow through the 21-mile wide straight from slowing to a
trickle, if not completely stop.
Seeing the United States=E2=80=99 economy weakening with the loss of Gulf
oil, and American military forces stretched across the globe,
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez could seize the opportunity to joint
the new Axis, cut the export of Venezuelan oil to the United States,
and thoroughly devastate the American economy with the loss of an
additional 12% of its oil supply.
Chavez has already declared his nation=E2=80=99s oil exports a
=E2=80=9Cgeopolitical weapon=E2=80=9D to be used against the United States,=
visited
Iran four times in the last 18 months and voiced his support for the
development of its nuclear programs, and while on a state visit to
Venezuela, President of North Korea=E2=80=99s Parliament, Yang Hyong Sop,
declared, =E2=80=9CIt is very necessary to further strengthen the
relations=E2=80=A6between our two people=E2=80=A6and =E2=80=A6face the cons=
piracies of
our enemies.=E2=80=9D
Would it make any sense for Chavez to take sides with the Axis against
the United States? No more than it made when Mussolini joined against
the Allies. But it would serve to placate the ego of Chavez who is
desperately angling to make himself an international anti-American
heavy weight and uniting all of South America in a larger =E2=80=9CBolivari=
an
Republic=E2=80=9D led by himself and Fidel Castro, just as Mussolini dreamed
of recreating the Roman Empire across the Mediterranean with himself as
Emperor.
Adding in the final few similarities between World War II and today and
the picture is complete. In Iraq, the chief protagonists of Iran and
the United States are already fighting and developing the tactics of
the next war, and the international community is so preoccupied with
criticizing and =E2=80=9Cpreventing=E2=80=9D another Iraq that they are mak=
ing a
far worse conflict inevitable, just as happened with the Spanish Civil
War. Israel, under pressure from the international community ceded the
Gaza Strip to Islamic fanatics in a vain attempt to buy peace with as
much success as the Allies gained by permitting the =E2=80=9CAnschluss.=E2=
=80=9D
And, growing antiwar and isolationist sentiments in the United States
are making it more likely for America to avoid entering any conflict
until a point in time where we are drawn into it unwillingly and
unprepared due to a national catastrophe.
For decades people have spoke about the =E2=80=9CMunich Syndrome=E2=80=9D a=
nd about
how those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat
it. Now, as events continue to unfold, and history seems to be
repeating itself, we must seriously ask our leaders and ourselves; what
do we intend to do about it?
=C2=A9 January 2006 Justin Darr
Justin Darr is a staff writer for The New Media Alliance, and a proud
member of the MoveOff Network.
Justin Darr is a freelance writer from the Philadelphia area where he
lives with this wife, Erin, twin children , a mouse, three cats, and a
spoiled dog named Xena. He grew up in rural Western Pennsylvania were
he learned the values of hard work, honesty, family, and the downfalls
of Liberalism
Justin is an expert in political philosophy, western world history, and
the development of American society. He has worked on various political
campaigns at all levels, served as an election official to verify
ballot counts, and is a well know "aggressive debater" to all that know
him. He is also a fountain of relatively useless knowledge due to years
of University study.
Send Feedback To Justin Darr Site: http://justindarr.com/
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11 Sep 2006 03:34:01 PM |
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Ze Truly Wondrous Last 2290 Dayz.=C2=B7:*=C2=A8=C2=A8*:=C2=B7. =E2=99=A5=C2=
=A9=C2=AE=E2=84=A2 wrote:
http://www.americandaily.com/article/11130
Setting the Stage for World War III. History Repeats Itself.
By Justin Darr (01/09/2006)
There is estimated to be about 18 million children in Africa orphaned
by
their parent/s dying of AIDS. (United Nations statistics January 2006)
There is a problem from AIDS in New Guinea.
There must be similar children in many parts of the undeveloped
countries of the world.
with a number in developed countries.
World leaders *****and that means ALL world leaders*****
must stop the killings, they must change from weapons production
to the provision of food, clothing, hospitals, medications,
adequate sex education (celebacy before marriage and fidelity within
it)
and the provision of contraceptives and aids to prevent further cases
of AIDS
and to prevent the conception of children that would otherwise be born
with AIDS,
schools, counselling services,
agriculturalists to set up the farms that orphaned children are unable
to set up for themselves,
and many other services.
Instead of a Third World War there needs to
a WAR on poverty,
a War on AIDS,
a WAR on ignorance.
That is the way to say that we are civilised.
Micah 4 : 3
They shall beat their swords into plowshares,
and their spears into pruning hooks:
nation shall not lift up a sword against nation,
neither shall they learn war anymore.
If only that could be a prophecy that is fulfilled in our times.
Gladys Swager
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