In an extraordinary op-ed piece, the most knowledgeable Islamic scholar in the most conservative major US publication predicted that WWIII may start on August 22 - next week! - as a nuclear war. Bernard Lewis in The Wall Street Journal believes that Iran will respond to recent moves by the US, Israel and moderate Islamic nations by doing something dramatic on one of the most honored dates in Islam - the date when Mohammed ascended to Heaven from the Far Mosque (Jerusalem). Iran may even pop off a nuke. Whether this is popped in the desert or on Tel Aviv remains to be seen.
How did it come to this? The recent exposure of an Islamic plot in England to use liquids to blow up flights to the US is just the latest in a series of very public signals by the US, moderate Islamic nations and Iran. A possible Grand Strategy for the War On Terror (WOT) is emerging out of the wreckage in Iraq, and it is directed at Iran. The story of the last few months is a remarkable geopolitical drama unfolding before the whole world, if we only have the eyes to see it.
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