(September 13, 2014 at 10:09 am)Natachan Wrote: There isn't going to be a WWIII, not in the same kind of way as the wars at the beginning of the 20th century. The west is no longer willing to fight that kind of total war and this area doesn't have the military power to pose that kind of threat. The issue is that the culture over there is behind by about 60-100 years. They know we won't crush them. They want to create violence and chaos. And we shouldn't get sucked into that.
Honestly, we should just let the area sort itself out. Open up trade and allow western media in. Eventually it will sort itself out.
I think you are probably right about WWIII, (or I hope anyway). I don't think the leadership of Russia, China, or the US actually believes an all out war is anything but mass suicide. (Unlike some of their citizens, i.e. the fool who started this thread.)
I would suggest that "they" are closer to 500 years behind. I agree that we should let the area sort itself out. I voted for Obama with the small (and utterly misplaced) hope that he was less war-loving than the other side. But this is America and war - at least war were we can use a million dollar missile carried by a multi-million dollar aircraft launched from a multi-billion dollar aircraft carrier to blow the shit out of a pick-up truck - is the only "foreign policy" we know.
