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Date Posted: 14:09:44 10/28/09 Wed
Author: Jeffman
Subject: Re: Something to think about.
In reply to: Paul Davis 's message, "Something to think about." on 18:33:09 10/22/09 Thu

But the world has been at war ...... pretty much since the world existed..in one way or the other. Whats dangerous now is the capability to kill on a massive scale with nuclear weapons and then leave whats left unihabitable by human kind.

>Often and almost always I find this huge skepticism
>about a big war coming. People just don't want to
>believe it will happen, so they just say I'm a
>warmonger or a fool or they ignore me.
>
>So I ask them to do this.
>
>Think about the world situation for a minute. Killing
>in the name of God happens all across Europe and Asia
>and Africa every day. Palestine and Israel are at war
>to all intents. Pakistan is at war with the Taliban.
>China had over 80,000 disturbances (riots) the last
>year they were willing to give an official number.
>North Korea and Iran are launching missiles, China is
>demonstrating home grown weapons systems, including
>systems designed specifically to go around US defenses
>(Silkworm missile) and is facing extreme ethnic
>pressure internally (Uighar among others) and Africa
>is a mess, as always. How many of those situations
>could lead to regional war that grows to massive war?
>For that matter, war between Pakistan and India would
>involve more than a billion people, doesn't that
>qualify as a massive war all by itself? Think about
>those situations.
>
>Now, think about peace. How many scenarios can you
>write that lead to world war, and how many that lead
>to peace - and be realistic, don't make me laugh at
>you.
>
>When there isn't any road to peace, there will be war.

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