Why is everybody getting in a tizzy that Bush just named our course of military actions as per the present as “World War III”?

It’s doing former CIA Director James Woolsey one worst, Woolsey being the author of the “This is World War IV” commentary.

Myself, I have two minds on the subject: we are either still stuck in World War II — World War II never quite ended — the whole “The Nazis faded into the Intelligence Services of the US and the USSR, and took up residence there.”

OR… This is World War FIVE. I can’t quite decide where World War IV could be shoe-horned in, though. Maybe the Napoleonic Wars are tapped as World I, and we can defer to James Woolsey’s worldview from there. (Of course, perhaps his “World War III” isn’t quite over, either.)

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