Submitted by James Folsom on Sat, 08/27/2011 - 19:11
With so much unrest in the world and so many news reports, sometimes life can be a bit distressing. Has the world ever been this volatile as it is now?
Or has it always been but we just didn’t know it? I’m guessing it’s a little of both. With the advance of technology there is also new and improved ways to destroy each other. This gives rise to more and more people with the capability of doing so. One no longer has to be a sovereign nation to declare war. Small groups such as Al Qaeda can wage war on a nation today. Drug Lords and cartels have enough money to buy any weaponry they want. And they can hire mercenaries to carry out their destructive plans.
America at War ... Again?
So with that in mind, here are my predictions for the next three military actions the USA will find itself engaged in.
1) Libya and/or Syria.
Libya’s government has been toppled apparently. Khadafi is no more. This sounds like good news right? Well, not so fast my friend. The new regime will likely be just as awful. That’s what normally happens. We thought things would be better without the Czar in Russia. How did that turn out? We also thought things would be better in Cuba without Batista. Then we got Castro. The new leader will be feeling pretty good about himself. He won’t have the “fear of God” that Khadafi had from being put in his place by the US a few times. Syria has been given the sternly worded letter from Lord Barack Obama. That rattling sound you hear is them shaking in their boots. Yeah right? It’s actually laughing and giving the finger you hear. These people (and many others increasingly) see our president as a wimp.
2) Mexico and other drug cartels.
The drug trade has just about completely taken over Mexico. Entire towns and cities -- many like Juarez on the US border -- have given up. The police have quit, the business owners have closed up shop. The Mexican government has most of its people on the drug cartel’s payroll. The huge amounts of money, most of which is in US cash, sitting in the possession of the drug trade could go a long way toward paying off our national debt. Literally billions if not trillions in cash are sitting in these drug kingpins houses, not circulating. It is only a matter of time before an American politician uses this as a campaign promise. Americans everywhere will vote for the idea of going down there and getting “our cash”. It’s actually a good idea. But it will take the Marines, Army, Air Force and Navy to go down there and get it. These drug lords run the countries they are in. And those countries are heavily armed.
3) Al Qaeda/Iran/Iraq/Afghanistan.
So you think it’s all over just because Osama is dead? Get your head out of the sand. These people will be back. It’s just a matter of when. It will probably be when our fearless leader declares the war over and pulls out all of our troops. He’ll even be good enough to give them a date. So they’ll lay low until that day comes. After that it will be “Game On”. And just like that, ten years of fighting the war on terror will go down the drain. We’ll be in 2001 all over again.
So there are my predictions for the next three wars. Hopefully they are all wrong. But there's a good chance each will be dead on. How will America fair?
To a degree there already is
To a degree there already is a war between America and Mexico, just nowhere near the normal kind of one. As far as an actual war again, it is possible. The need to come in and help the Mexican people fight off the rebel cartels is right around the corner. However I do not believe it will be nearly that bad. I dont thinkt that when pressured with the right forces the Mexican cartels will put up much of a battle. At least nothing like what our soldiers have faced in the Middle East with their explosives such as suicide bomber and land mines. But what about a war that isnt quite so obvious? Like the US and China? A war of power?
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