[quote=zk]Surveyor, I’d be interested to hear any remotely plausible scenarios where this doesn’t stay there.[/quote]

It’s already happening. Libya, Egypt, Bahrain will be taken over by Islamists. Islamists are already cultivating jihadis to strike at America and her interests. Pakistan is a whit away from being taken over by Islamists and the Iranians practically have the bomb. Saudi Arabia and other Arab states are desperate to get nuclear in order to counteract Iran. All of these places broadcast “hate America” and “America die die die” 24/7.

I agree, it will not be a major military confrontation like WWI or WWII. It will be more like what Israel goes through, with multiple jihadi attacks. You will probably see a lot of American citizens targeted or being killed abroad. Or it will be through major disruptions to our economy. Also consider this: our world is even more connected together and more interdependent today than it was in WWI and WWII.

Like I said, it’s already happened. 9/11 brought that chaos from over there to us here and it has continued. In all scenarios, I don’t see it NOT coming here somehow.