Another World War?

Steve Dennis thinks about the possibilities.


War is good business for some people, which reminds me of something I was thinking about with regard to the post-WWII United States economy and the idiotic foulness that is Keynesian economics.  Maybe later.

Anyway, the Fed is up against it.  The Japanese are flailing.  The euro is in danger.  A nice, prolonged war in the Middle East would certainly take the mass minds off the impending world-wide depression.  The problem in the region is the size of the single, non-Muslim state.  Israel has literally hours to exist if an enemy successfully breaches her borders.  There's a reason the Six Day War only lasted six days.  There just isn't enough land mass to accommodate the swift pace of modern warfare for a prolonged period of time.

You might recall that during the First Gulf War, the U.S. managed to keep Israel out of the conflict entirely.  What happens if either desperate rebels armed with U.S. weaponry, or a desperate Assad seeking to draw support from away from the rebels decides that an attack on Israel would be a good idea?  What if Israel is forced to attack U.S.-backed forces, or even NATO forces? 

In the link above, Steve Dennis brings up the idea of an alliance between Israel and Russia.  One commenter could not help thinking it was a typo.  But Russia is a long-time ally of Assad.  Israel does not want another Al Qaeda-linked enemy on another front.  It is not that far-fetched. 

Obama is a Muslim-sympathizer, if not a cultural Muslim himself.  He spent a good twenty years of his life immersed in the anti-Semitic Black Liberation theology of Jeremiah Wright, who is much closer to Louis Farrakan than to Billy Graham.  I don't see that Obama has Israel's best interests in mind at all. 

There are Christian prophecy experts who are getting all excited about the potential destruction of the ancient city of Damascus as a sign of the end-times.  While I disagree with their view, I do think a war around Israel could easily escalate well beyond anyone's expectations.  A direct conflict between the U.S. and Russia would not be pretty.  The war in Alas, Babylon started in the port city of Latakia, Syria.