Reuters: Islamic militancy could yield world war-US general (Abizaid)

[Eugene]

Islamic militancy could yield world war-US general
18 Nov 2006 01:21:37 GMT
Source: Reuters

By Scott Malone

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Nov 17 (Reuters) - The top U.S. general in the Middle East said
on Friday that if the world does not find a way to stem the rise of Islamic militancy,
it will face a third world war.

Army Gen. John Abizaid compared the rise of militant ideologies, such as the force
driving al Qaeda, to the rise of fascism in Europe in the 1920s and 1930s that set
the stage for World War Two.

"If we don't have guts enough to confront this ideology today, we'll go through World
War Three tomorrow," Abizaid said in a speech titled "The Long War," at Harvard
University's Kennedy School of Government in Cambridge, outside Boston.

If not stopped, Abizaid said extremists would be allowed to "gain an advantage, to gain
a safe haven, to develop weapons of mass destruction, to develop a national place from
which to operate. And I think that the dangers associated with that are just too great
to comprehend."

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Full article: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N17325276.htm

[SoCalDem]

1. No shit, Sherlock! n/t

[NOLADEM]

2. I can tell he is keeping his fingers crossed.

What a dick.

[NanceGreggs]

3. Too late, Sherlock ...

... it's already happened:

"... extremists would be allowed to gain an advantage, to gain
a safe haven, to develop weapons of mass destruction, to develop a national place from which to operate."

The extremists are called neocons, and the safe haven from which they've been operating is the White House.

[mike_c]

4. the best way to stem Islamic militancy MUST involve...

...a cessation of fueling militancy. Militancy is largely a response to poverty, oppression, and exploitation-- the cornerstones of U.S. foreign policy.

[Kagemusha]

5. This guy's got some nerve.

He's openly politicking for the President now.

[grytpype]

6. Yeah, Bush screwed us pretty good by invading Iraq.

He turned it into a terrorist playground. Fucking brilliant. And now the war is beyond anyone's means to win.

[NNN0LHI]

7. If the Iraqis don't let us steal their oil it could spark a world war?

Interesting.

Don

[Windy]

8. He has a gig at Fox when he retires without doubt!

This guys taking military loyalty to the "commander in chief" to the extreme!! I don't think his rhetoric will sit well with the American people who overwhelmingly voted for change. He comes off as the shill he is...and its a damn shame that he is commanding our troops.