New World War- Update

I questioned in a previous posting whether we were witnessing a long march towards a new world war. As I opined, the list of active "fronts" in the war includes

Israel-Lebabon-Palestinian Territories
Iraq
Afghanistan
Chechnya
Bosnia-Kosovo
India-Pakistan (Kashmir)
North Korea

We should get ready to add Somalia to the list, where, as reported by the July 21 Times Online (U.K.), it finds iteself "on the brink of war as militias tighten grip.":

ETHIOPIAN troops crossed into Somalia yesterday to help to defend the country’s beleaguered President from Islamist militias…

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The border crossing, coupled with strong rhetoric from the Somali Government and the militias, has increased fears that Somalia is slipping closer to all-out war.

Upon further reflection, if one considers terror strikes as "battlefields", then you should add New York City, London, Bali, Madrid, Tanzinia, Jordan, Moscow, and Egypt.

Against this backdrop, Democratic leaders continue their call for more and more diplomacy. Negotiations and "talk" is the cure, they tell us. At what point will they and their adherants conclude that it’s all bluster, covering up the ever expanding threat Islamofascism presents to the entiire world?

Mark Steyn writes in the Chicago Sun-Times on the would be "great men" who will solve our woes:

It’s easy to fly in a guy in a suit to hold a meeting. Half the fellows inside the Beltway have Middle East "peace plans" named after them. Bush flew in himself a year or two back to announce his "road map." Before that it was Cheney, who flew in with the Cheney plan, which was a plan to open up a road map back to the last plan, which would get us back to "Tenet," which would get us back to "Mitchell," which would get us back to "Wye River," which would get us back to "Oslo," which would get us back to Kansas.

And none of these Great Men meeting with other Great Men gets us anywhere.

Click here to read the entire piece. As usual, Mr. Steyn says it better than anyone else can. Tick. Tick. Tick. How long before the ticking time bomb that is today’s world goes off?

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