Gingrich: ‘This Is, In Fact, World War III’

[Goobieman]

Newt claims this is essentually a world war now, it isnt.

GINGRICH:
"We’re in the early stages of what I would describe as the third World War."

Now, I dont know about you, but that statement implies that the war will grow from where it is now to a world-wide conflict -- and involve more than just states from the ME. If you have a different take, I'd be really interested in hearing it.

Have you seen the "coalition of the willing", hardly world wide participation.

Strawman. That term is used to describe the coalition in Iraq.
It has no bearing on who would/would not be involved in a world-wide conflict.

Iran does not have nukes. Iran probably will not have nukes for at least 10 years. So presently, they do not have that ability. Moreover, they would have to develop the missile technology to do so as well.

This is, of course, just an example of your short-sightedness.
Since this is the beginning of the war, Iran's capabilities at THIS moment arent really relevant.

In 1941 we didnt have the ability to attack Japan's industry; by August 1945 it was devastated. What's your point, again?

Exactly.

And so, by that argument, there cannot be a WW3, period.
Is that what you REALLY want to say?
REALLY?

How could one possibly argue that radical Islam could actually result in the fall of western civilization. That is flat out absurd.

:shock:
Its already happening in Europe -- the governments there are so afraid of Islamofasicts violence they have, on occasion, decided to not fly their own flags in order to keep from offending them.

There's more than one way to create a fall of a civilization.

Even worse case scenario, they get a nuclear bomb and some how, detonate that bomb in a U.S. city, while it could kill a lot of people, and devastate the economy, it certainly would not stand a chance of toppling our government.

Again - short sightedness.