WWIII, a history lesson Options

[sandkind]

Okay, it is time for us to wake up and realize we are currently in the midst of WWIII. Visionary Hillaire Belloc foretold it in 1938, "...probable that there would be a resurrection of Islam and that our sons or our grandsons would see the renewal of that tremendous struggle between the Christian culture and what has been for more than a thousand years its greatest opponent."

In 1979, due in large part to the Carter Administration, Ayatollah Khomeini returned from exile in France and took power in Iran with 2 objectives. The preamble of the new Iranian Constitution stated that the nation's armed forces "will be responsible not only safeguarding our
borders, but also for accomplishing an ideological mission, that is Jihad for the sake of God, as well as for struggling to open the war for the sovereignty of the Word of God throughout the world." Then only six months later, Khomeini told other governments, "that Islam cannot be defeated. Islam will be victorious in all the countries of the world, and Islam and the teachings of the Koran will prevail over the world." If not a declaration of war, what is?

Thousands then came to Iran for military training, massive financial support, and political assistance.

In 1983 Hezbollah was responsible for truck bombings of the U.S. Embassy in Beirut and a U.S. Marines barracks, killing 241 Marines. In 1984, they bombed a U.S. Embassy annex killing 24 and also kidnapped and killed CIA Station Cheif William Buckley.

In a 1985 declaration Hezbollah proclaimed "We view the Iranian regime as the vanguard and a new nucleus of the leading Islamic State in the world. We abide by orders of one single and wise and just leadership, represented by 'Wali Faqih' and personified by Khomeini."

In 1993 Iran's Military Intelligence organized a meeting of extremist leaders in Tehran, planning global "Islamic revolutionary action." Iranian leadership pledged a half billion dollars for insurgency operations worldwide.

According to the 9/11 Commission, Iran and al Qaeda forged an informal accord in late 1991 or 1992 under which al-Qaeda mujahideen traveled first to Iran and then to Lebanon's Beka'a Valley to receive explosives training. Cooperation between Iran and al Qaeda has continued unabated. They are simply two arms of Iran's world Jihad. Iran has been active in Croatia, training the Bosnian army. In Latin America, Hezbollah is heavily involved in the drug trade in the Tri-border area of Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay and has formed cells in Columbia and Hugo Chavez's Venezuela. Chavez has been a frequent visitor to Tehran. There is not a part of the world where Hezbollah's tentacles haven't spread, including the U.S. The point of all of this is that Iran has not only declared a Jihad - a world war against the West - but has been the principal player behind the scenes in every battle in the war, from Iraq to Lebanon and Gaza. We make a serious mistake when we fail to recognize that the situations in Iraq and Afghanistan and Lebanon are merely part of a worldwide war. We cannot prevail in any of these conflicts as long as we insist on treating them as isolated incidents. We are engaged in combat with a well financed, determined enemy with forces in every corner of the globe that
will not cease their attacks until we drive them off the face of the earth.

In Iraq, a senior member of Muqtada al-Sadr's Iraqi Shi'ite militia, the so-called Mahdi Army, gave the game away when he said the group is forming a squadron of up to 1,500 elite fighters to go to Lebanon and join forces with Hezbollah. The fact is that al-Sadr's Iraqi Shi'ite militia is
supported by Iran and is actively fomenting a civil war between the Shia and the Sunnis that could wreck U.S. hopes for a free and peaceful Iraq.

The war in Lebanon is a conflict between Israel and Iran - Hezbollah is nothing less than Iran's across-the-border armed force. With the West ignoring the nature of the Lebanon struggle with Iran's proxy, Hezbollah acting in Tehran's behalf and under Tehran's orders, is it any wonder that Israel and the rest of the Western world were shocked at the sophistication of Hezbollah's armament paid for and supplied by Tehran. This is no rag-tag bunch of thugs -this is a superbly equipped and well-trained army, and they are everywhere. Israel's attempt to defend itself by attacking the infrastructure of Lebanon and killing Lebanese civilians in the process has been used by Iran's propaganda machine to infuriate much of the Moslem world, adding millions of Moslems to those already seeking the triumph of Islam and enlisting in the war against the West.

Should Israel cease to exist, and were the U.S. to pull out of Iraq in the face of a civil war, the world war would not end. It will go on until either the West defeats it or it defeats the West

[Lis]

imho... us westerners / christians tend to uhm conveniantly forget our own role in this. And untill we do recognize the part we play in this, this will never be resolved. we are so afraid of what we think threathens us, that i feel our own society has come dangerously close to that what we fear, and what they resend...
there is no bigger fear, then fear itself.