OT: World War 3...

[dogscoff]

<...Isreal vs the rest of the middle east...>
After the armies of the arab nations are quickly dispatched, there might be international help for Israel to police the area, but it won't really be needed. Of course, it will happen anyway, as western nations get another taste of imperialism and get their quick fix from the resources in the Middle East.

I think maybe this is what the West+Isreal wants. It certainly seems to me that they've been acting more to provoke the arab world over the last few years than to bring about any kind of reconciliation.

Maybe they just want to provoke the arab people until they start a war (so the west doesn't look like the aggressors), then Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Blair and chums can win it and do what they want with the oil fields. Of course they'll cripple entire countries, cause untold death and misery, and sow the seeds of overwhelming hatred in a dozen unborn generations of middle easterners but hey, as long as the shareholders are happy.