'World War III Dilemma: Who Do We Blow Up?'
By James T. Moore (07/12/07)
Two questions just came up out of my think tank. Question One: Are we going experience the horrors of another World War, this time nuclear? Question Two: If a nuclear war develops, how do we know who our enemy is?
An Associated Press poll shows that six out of 10 Americans believe that a nuclear war is likely. With that question settled, let us now zero in on Question Two: our enemy.
Every one of our wars has had a specific target-participant. In 1776 it was England; in 1812 it was England again; in 1865 it was the Confederacy; in 1898 it was Spain; in 1917 it was Germany; in 1942 is was the Axis Powers (Germany, Italy and Japan); in the 1960’s it was Korea; in the 1970’s it was Vietnam; in 2007 it is Iraq and Afghanistan.
We have always had a designated enemy. So it is natural to ask, in a nuclear war, who will we blast into oblivion?
Not Terrorists---they don’t have a country to destroy; besides, they would blow themselves up before we could drop the big one.
Not Arabs---nuking innocent women and children would add nothing to our war effort.
Not Osama bin Laden---believe it or not, Bush said this guy is no longer a priority target.
Not China---that wouldn’t be smart since we gave them all out nuclear secrets.
Not Mexico---if we began eliminating Mexicans, California would lose half its population.
Not Russia---it wouldn’t mean much to start a “hot” war with a nation we defeated in a “cold” war. (A luke-warm war? Maybe.
Not Africa---the ACLU and the NAACP would come down on us like a swarm of tse-tse flies.
Not England---too obvious. We’ve already kicked their butts twice.
Not Israel--- they may now have more of our money and nuclear weapons than we’ve got.
Not Cuba---he’s already outlasted us for 40 years. And we have nothing bigger than a nuclear bomb.
Not the Arctic Region---nuclear explosions would melt the ice caps and we would all drown. Besides, who wants to kill Eskimos.
No, if we insist on starting World War III our designated target should be Ourselves. It would be a Quiet War, with no explosions of any kind, including nuclear. We would take stock on what we are doing to this planet and the people on it. We would take seriously all dissent, injustices, and tyrannical acts, and put them in a Court of Complaints for immediate remedial action.
We would kick the conniving, war-hungry, neo-conservatives out of this administration and the Pentagon, revamp our foreign policy, re-work our domestic agenda, restructure our whole approach to other nations in the world, and begin running America the way our Founding Fathers envisioned it should be run---which by the way, they put on paper in a document called the U.S. Constitution.
We would start minding our own business, respect other countries and cultures, and adhere to our own unique values, principles, and heritage. “Live and let live.” would be our motto.
That way, there would be no need to declare war on anybody, nor them on us, and the horror and miseries of a nuclear World War III might never come to pass.
This, in case the meaning of all this escapes you, is what sane and honest men call the Truth.
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