World War 2.1
The problem with the internet and modern media in general, is that it is far too easy for people without any kind of educated opinion to gain an audience. All that someone has to do is ignore facts and spew out apocalyptic and fanatical crap and there will be people willing to listen to their "expert opinion." Generally, these kind of venomous, horrible people do one of two things: they start blogs with pictures of themselves tossing out geek gang-signs in the top graphic, or they get a job with FOX "News."
Why the hating? I'm hating on FOX because they allow their pundits to say ridiculous shit like calling the crap going down in Lebanon to be "World War Three." This just looks bad on FOX if you have mastered the mystical and secret art of understanding the meaning of words. For this to qualify as being a "World War," you'd have to say that, much like previous World Wars, a majority of the nations of the world are involved in it. Let's count how many countries are fighting in the middle east right now.
In the re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-rematch of the Israelis versus the Palestinians, the Israelis are being represented by, logically, Israel. And in the blue corner, their opponents, representing the Palestinians, Hezbollah! Hezbollah, not Lebanon. Lebanon is like the guy with the nice house who has a deadbeat friend (Hezbollah) move in, annoy the neighbours, and eventually get the cops called for playing their gangsta rap too loud in the middle of the night. Hezbollah isn't a country, just a bunch of guys with AKs. So Lebanon isn't really involved in this, other than they keep getting missiles shot at them for crap that they didn't do. Israel is also shooting missiles at Palestine, which isn't really a country either, they're kind of status non-specific. Between Hezbollah and Palestine, I'll give them about three quarters of a country, or 0.75 of a country. Israel, on the other hand, is actually a country, mostly. Large parts of their territory are under dispute, they have a coalition government which only mostly represents the interests of the population. With this in mind, I'll also give them three quarters of full "country" status. Not to punish them, just to encourage them to try harder.
So, to sum it all up, with everything that's going on, we have approximately 1.5 countries involved in the conflict. That is not exactly a world war. That's barely a war at all. It's something more than a civil war, but not quite a real war. So, keep that in mind when you're watching the news and someone tries to call this World War Three, that there aren't even three countries involved in this. There's a country and a half.
Why the hating? I'm hating on FOX because they allow their pundits to say ridiculous shit like calling the crap going down in Lebanon to be "World War Three." This just looks bad on FOX if you have mastered the mystical and secret art of understanding the meaning of words. For this to qualify as being a "World War," you'd have to say that, much like previous World Wars, a majority of the nations of the world are involved in it. Let's count how many countries are fighting in the middle east right now.
In the re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-rematch of the Israelis versus the Palestinians, the Israelis are being represented by, logically, Israel. And in the blue corner, their opponents, representing the Palestinians, Hezbollah! Hezbollah, not Lebanon. Lebanon is like the guy with the nice house who has a deadbeat friend (Hezbollah) move in, annoy the neighbours, and eventually get the cops called for playing their gangsta rap too loud in the middle of the night. Hezbollah isn't a country, just a bunch of guys with AKs. So Lebanon isn't really involved in this, other than they keep getting missiles shot at them for crap that they didn't do. Israel is also shooting missiles at Palestine, which isn't really a country either, they're kind of status non-specific. Between Hezbollah and Palestine, I'll give them about three quarters of a country, or 0.75 of a country. Israel, on the other hand, is actually a country, mostly. Large parts of their territory are under dispute, they have a coalition government which only mostly represents the interests of the population. With this in mind, I'll also give them three quarters of full "country" status. Not to punish them, just to encourage them to try harder.
So, to sum it all up, with everything that's going on, we have approximately 1.5 countries involved in the conflict. That is not exactly a world war. That's barely a war at all. It's something more than a civil war, but not quite a real war. So, keep that in mind when you're watching the news and someone tries to call this World War Three, that there aren't even three countries involved in this. There's a country and a half.
posted by B-Boy Nothing at 7:08 PM
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Effing FOX.
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