[General Woundwort]

Again, I don't want to get hung up on terminology. OK, so we're not talking about massed national armies in the sense of World Wars I and II. But when you look at the scope of the conflict, and the numbers of casualties actually generated, it is more than just a blip on the radar. How many Afghanis have died due to the war between the Taliban and the other tribes? How many non-Muslim Sudanese have been killed and enslaved by the Muslim-dominated government? What happens if Nigeria goes into a religious civil war? What about the Pakistani-Indian wars? What happens if (or when) that conflict goes nuclear? Or if Iran gets the bomb and decides to use it on Israel (as some of their clerics have stated on the record is an intended use)? And all it would take is one well-placed terrorist nuke/chemical/bio bomb to generate WWII-level damage and casualties.

We're in a very dangerous world. The old paradigms for war no longer apply.