Echoes of Wars Past

Yesterday was the 64th Anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor, "A Date That Will Live in Infamy."

Last night, on the CBS Nightly News, I heard Bob Schieffer do a segue from WWII to the current war in Iraq, calling it "a different kind of war."

This aggravated the TrekMedic to a certain degree:

• First, let's call this war for what it REALLY is - World War III. It is, after all, GLOBAL terrorism that we are fighting. Just like WWII, it involves allied forces united for a common goal against a common foe.
  
• Just as in WWII, we are fighting a war based on an ideology. In World War II, it was democracy against Fascism, racial hatred, and in the Pacific, the belief that the leader of Japan was divine and by divine right, was entitled to expand his empire. Today, we still fighting nothing more than an ideology, which also hopes to dominate the global mindset.
• However, unlike this World War, at least the enemy had the balls to stand their ground and fight you on a field of battle, instead of hiding like cowards behind innocent women and children.

As always, that's my opinion and you're entitled to it.