Major Konings,
Myself along with all other right-thinking Americans are proud of brave soldiers like you who have honored this nation with your service. As much as I may disagree with many others in this forum, and I may even disagree with you on certain themes, one thing I have learned from my years in this great country is that it remains great and safe due to selfless individuals like yourself. Yes, you have every right to feel the way you do about President Bush or anyone else for that matter.Â
On to my other point I would like to make before a firestorm starts here. My point is this. The United States is the only reason the world hasn’t blown up into WWIII on a global scale. As far as the current situation around the world, I believe we (the United States) are already fighting WWIII in the form of muslim fascists who want nothing more to kill each and every one of us because Allah tells them to. We are fighting them on a global scale.
As far as other nations involved including China, North Korea, Iran, Russia, and many others, the only reason they haven’t made a move yet is due to the United States’ military power. Now that being said, for all those liberals in America and abroad who want the US to lose the war in Iraq, or to cut and run, here’s the danger in that thinking:
If we cut and run in Iraq, the terrorists will be handed a major victory. The other enemies of this country (ie CHina, North Korea, Russia, and Iran) would see we can be beaten if enough US soldiers are killed and also by being aided by the Anti-American and Anti-military media in this nation and around the world. Nothing is more important than that simple fact. IF we pull out and “cut-and-run” like Murtha and other liberals want us to do in Iraq, the following would happen. Maybe not right away, but within the next 5 + years.
North Korea would develop nuclear weapons. They would then send their forces into South Korea making the Korean Penninsula an ignited powder keg.
China would increase it’s ambitions by gearing up and invading Tawain which would prove disasterous not only for the lives lost, but for the computer industry that would then be dominated by the Red Chinese. I won’t rule out the possibility of a neutron bomb or a nuclear bomb being used as the Tawainese air force would be able to tear apart any fighter China could send against them. China, in possible desparation, especially if the US gets involved would be to resort to these weapons.
Iran would start to flex its muscle in the Middle East by threatening any US sympathetic country (ie Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and Qatar) to remove the US presence from their region. These muslim countries would then ask US forces to leave due to seeing that we did not stay the course in Iraq and would not want to anger Iran who would develop several nuclear weapons in the Middle East. After the US would move out of the Middle East, Iran would threaten Oil reserves in these countries by declaring a possible invasion of Iraq, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. This would drive oil prices up 200% causing massive shortages in the industrialized west. Iran might even pull the trigger and invade these said countries because they would see that the US would not be willing to fight any war that would create great casualties.
Russia would employ brutal tactics against the Chechnian rebals by launching an all out ground invasion, or a limited chemical strike on Grosny to try to decapitate the resistance once and for all.
Serbia would gear up its military for an attack against Kosovo to continue its acts of ethnic cleansing that it had employed during the 1990’s. Serbia might even try to regain it’s former Yugoslavian glory by attacking the former Yugoslavian republics.
Well, that’s what I think would happen. Maybe it’s a little far-fetched, but what would happen if all these happened around the same time frame? What would the world response be to this new Axis of Evil? Could the UN be relied upon? NO. Would the US be willing to "go it alone?" The answer all depends on who is running the country during this time.
For all liberals in this forum. Read this scenario the next time you start your anti-American retoric. America is the only thing keeping you safe.
Rune Blade