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What's behind Islamic religious extremists' war against the West?
by Howard Davis
"Far worse," he said. "When I saw the second tower collapse, I said 'I'm watching the beginning of World War III.'"
My father is not given to overstatement.
On the day after Pearl Harbor, the submarine on which he served fired the first
U.S. torpedo in World War II. He was an 18-year-old radioman on the sub in Guam,
bombed that day by the Japanese air force. He has never stopped talking about
his
war experiences.
But World War III?
Is the Western world really fighting a war on a par with the two greatest wars of the 20th century?
Consider. In the crisis that ignited the First World War in the spring of 1914, the assassination of Austrian Archduke Ferdinand quickly brought belligerent alliances into conflict. A generation later Hitler invaded Poland in September 1939, plunging the world into war on a scale never before seen. In both cases, clearly visible tensions had built for years. Nations had amassed armies, many were entangled in a web of alliances, and war was obviously inevitable.
Somehow today is different. The United States is the world's only superpower, dwarfing other nations in military might. Yet the attack on New York and Washington caught Americans completely by surprise.
Even months later the memories of the burning 110-story World Trade Center towers disintegrating before our eyes on television are vividly surreal, and the devastation to the world's financial epicenter so complete, it seems natural for politicians, pundits and priests to invoke biblical language to describe the horror of the events.
News anchormen adopted the descriptions of biblical prophecy. Referring to the final battle between God and the armies of Satan toward the end of the book of Revelation, CBS anchorman Dan Rather said downtown New York "looks more like Armageddon than Gotham."
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