Let's play chess, shall we?

Remember when I said that my blogs will sometimes contain speculation? Well here you go, your dose of spec- with a dash of -ulation. Enjoy it.

You ever play the game of chess? Or know the history of chess? Chess was a tool created by the Indians (from India - people) for warfare strategy, mathematical calculations, gambling and even its vague assocation with astronomy.

So how can we associate this with todays world? Who is todays real threat to our way of life? (Yes there is one, despite what you may think) Here's how I think things are playing out.

Late 1990's and Early 2000's your government learns about a potential threat to hijack American planes and crash them into buildings. Heck, numerous intelligence agencies claimed to have warned our government of the pending attacks. Whether it's true or not is up to you to decide.

So what are the negatives to this action if these terrorists succeed? You lose anywhere between 1,000 to 5,000 innocent American Lives.

What are the positives if this action takes place? (In Government terms) You give the American people the fuel to light the fire. An attack on American soil gives you full power to take care of whatever it is you need to take care of. Sound familiar? Pearl Harbor. Yea, I'm one of those that believe Pearl Harbor was known by our government well in advance and left outof the loop for a reason. Why? Because no one in the U.S., including our politicians, wanted to go into the world war in Europe?

Do I think it was right? Yes, and let me tell you why. If these sorts of things did not happen then we'd all have funny short mustaches (girls too! ha-ha) and our national language would be German.

The fact of the matter was the Germans were kicking the sh*t out of Europe and they were taking England and placing them over their knee and spanking them unrelentlessly. The Brits were being destroyed in every fashion of warfare. Even to the point that our American pilots would volunteer to go over to England to fly for the RAF (Royal Air Force).

So what's the next step after Hitler obliterates Europe and eliminates all the Jews? You think he would stop there and be content? NO! He would have continued over to America, with undefeatable forces to invade with.

So FDR had a very difficult decision to make. His entire country was against war, his government was against war but he knew in his heart that we had to enter this war or be annihilated ourselves. FDR gets word of an attack on US soil and he decides to let the Japanese attack, kill 3,000 American sailors and Marines, and enters our country into WWII.

Now fast forward to today. Our country faces multiple threats and on a nuclear scale. We allow 9/11 to happen which launches us into a Global War on Terrorism with the American peoples full support.Look into Rebuilding America's Defenses.

So in terms of chess, the enemies of America are the white pieces and America are the black pieces. The white strikes first and flies planes into our buildings which killed over 3,000 innocent civilians.

We trace the culprit, Osama bin laden, to Afghanistan. Hrm, what a convenient location. Afghanistan borders Iran to the east.



White pawn - Afghanistan

After you take care of the local government, which albeit was a very bad and controlling one, you set up bases in the country and control the skies. Then you make your next move.

Our pawn takes a two square leap this time and moves into Iraq. You make up some stories which at the time may be true if you know anything about the past. Did Saddam have WMD's in the past? yes (although no nuclear, WMD's include biological and chemical - he used them and was hanged because of it). So this is an easy story to sell.



Now look at that, we're working towards stablizing Iraq, we have numerous bases within the country and we have conveniently placed ourselves to the west and east of our main threat. Iran. We're even a buffer for Israel by placing ourselves in the middle of Iran and Israel. Kind of like a big brother would do if he saw his little brother being picked on. Now that's one hell of a chess move if you ask me. Where is your enemies King going to go?

Of course this is all speculation and one man's opinion on how things are going down. You don't have to buy it at all or you can take it into your arsenal in anti-war blogging. It just seems to be very interesting to me on how things are playing out.

Iran is definitely a threat. A threat to the middle east, a threat to our allies, a threat to our country. They have help as well, and as things are also playing out, our old cold war villains are assisting them. I won't link you any articles on those items, you can google it and find tons of articles to support it. Iran has threatened to wipe Israel off the map, they're building towards a "peaceful nuclear program", they support terrorism (hizbollah).

So if you look at things this way, Do I agree with invading Afghanistan? yes. Do I agree with invading Iraq? no, but look at the positioning of our pawn. Do I agree with preemptive war? yes and no, if things play out the way I think they are then yes, anything to protect my kids. I'm not a big fan of Islam and speaking farsi.