World War Iii ?!?!

[Eagle]

You said that NATO would stand by us but you weren't sure about Germany? GERMANY IS PART OF NATO! Both Germany and Japan have been our allies sinse the end of WW2. Russia has pledged thier support, I think that they are itching for some payback after the Mugaheddin (the same group that WE supported against the Soviets and eventually evolved intothe Taliban) handed them their assesin the late 70s and 80s.

[Thordic]

Originally posted by Jeb_Hoge

And we will certainly see support from friendly Middle Eastern nations. Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Kuwait will back us, Israel will (hopefully) sit quietly and not piss off Syria and Lebanon, who I imagine will not be happy but also not intercede, and Iraq...well, they might get kicked in the teeth.

Kuwait is almost as bad of an Islamic fundamentalist government as Afghanistan, but they are so tiny that militarily they are worthless. They produce a lot of oil, and have a lot of money, and thats just about it.

Jordan is on our side, they have aided us against terrorism in the past. (I believe it was them in 1999 who informed us of a terrorist plot they had uncovered.)

I would not be so sure of Saudi Arabia. They allowed us to use thier country as a staging area during Desert Storm, but in general our governments aren't too friendly. It has been the belief for a long time that a large chunk of Bin Ladens money comes from the Saudi royal family. They are one country I am personally rather wary of. I'm sure there are many many Saudi's who abhor the attacks in the US, but the position of thier government may not be the same. This is not saying that they are a terrorist state, it is just a cautionary statement that perhaps we shoudn't trust them completely.

As for Egypt, they try to be more wordly than many other Middle Eastern countries, so they have very little to gain in aiding afghanistan or Bin Laden, and VERY much to lose.

[cphilip]

Agreed Thordic! A lot of "ifs" with some of those countries.

[Hasty8]

There will be no world war

I think you guys are missnig something here. The day so f WWII are long gone.

Technology and tactical training will see to that. The wars of today are mostly sporadic, starting quickly and ending quicker.

That is one of the reasons Rumsfield wants to redesign the army but that is a discussion for another time.

What most lkely will happen is either the President or the Copngress will move to recind Gerald Fords 1976 Executive Order which basiclly states that no American can take place in or know about an assassination or something to that effect.

Then we send in a small, mobile and fast as lightening assault force and take out Osama Bin Laden (Correct spelling for those who care) and his followers.

And if Saddam Hussein so much as makes a peep the do him too.

[cphilip]

Well I don't know which "guys" you are talking about. But preparing for a durational conflict is the proper and prudent thing to do reguardless of the times.

It is assumed that the President can recind an executive order with another executive order doing so at any time. But in the advent of a delaration of war that existing order is nul and void for that situation anyway. Only if we chose to send in an Assasination team would it be illegal. If he is killed in as an act of war it's just too bad. Personaly? I want him alive...

[Sgt Carnage]

Web's right, Dismayed also

There are very few countries (3rd world) that would join Afghanistan and would want to get in the way of what is coming. Osama Bin Ladin is calling on all Muslim Arab Nation to unite and fight us Americans. Personally I hope SADAM joins in so we can finish that job like we should have.

JAPAN - since the end of WWII has only been "allowed a small defense force "JDF" mostly made up of older US Military hardware. ABSOLUTELY no offensive capabiltieS!
As well as being an ally and defended by the US.

RUSSIA - ALOT OF IRONY HERE! When Russia was fighting the Mujahadeen in Afghanistan in the early 80's. The US supported the "rebels" with such as the Stinger Missiles, training -CIA and supposably "we" built many mountain tunnel systems for them.......The irony here is that the Russians have been supporting the rebels now fighting the Taliban. Needless to say Russia will stand with us. But don't step on anyones toes, "it is their neck of the woods not ours"
Also - there are no soviet block countries and no more warsaw pact to my knowledge.

China - Untrustworthy, but will just quietly "watch and learn"! "beware the red dragon". China is regarded as the biggest threat to the US since the break-up of the Soviet Union.

Germany - obviously is an ally, Germany has only been re-unified for about a decade

AHHH, I dont have time to finish this, suddenly must go.
Finish later.

[Mag89]

Maybe but I doubt it. I don't really think it is gonna to happen another world war.

[Snap_Dogg]

i think we will go to war. Nostradomis predicted the plane hitting the buildings and he said there was gonna be a 3rd big war.

[shartley]

Snap go read the Thread in Friedly Corner about that topic. :)

I think you will see it is not quite that simple. :)

[Snap_Dogg]

im just trying to look smart

[C�borg]

I don't know about you guys, but I think all fears the U.S. has about China are unfounded, they are our largest business parnter! And as most people know, politics are run by big business, I agree china will not help us, (though they did say they hope we get the people who did this) but that doesn't mean they are an enemy.

thordic, I noticed you said you thought Bin Laden was getting support from the Saudi Arabian royal family, I thought I would point out that Bin Laden was exiled from Saudi Arabia, and i think if the royal family was supporting him they would remove his exiled status.

Iraq is the only country in the world that has not sent it's condolences to the U.S. if there was any country involved with this attack it would be Iraq

I don't think any devoloped countries will side with afgahnastan, devoloped countries mean order, and terrorism is the opposite of order, so I don't think North Korea, which is a 2nd world country, will even have any part of this batle.

India has no grudge or any other problems with the U.S. they only have problems with Pakistan (another country offering the U.S. places to place bases) I don't think the governments of Pakistan or India are going to intintianally interfere with the U.S. involvement in Afgahnastan, they may however start attacking each other, which could cause some major problems.