There will be a Total World War between the Judo-Christian and Islam worlds within the century.

I will first address my opponent's statement that, because of the U.S.' system of checks and balances, a dictatorial form of government cannot occur. The Roman Republic also had a complex constitution with checks and balances, but when things started going wrong, they gave immense powers to Julius Caesar, sort of like executive orders after 9/11. With our recession, it's like destroying our country's immune system. When something ELSE happens, we will be in big trouble. What good are our laws if they can be overturned? Julius Caesar came back to Rome from his governorship in Spain with his army. He wanted the great victory procession that the Senate granted certain generals to honor especially great achievements, and to run for Consul. The law did not allow him to do both. It required him to stay outside the city with his army, and demanding that he canvass for votes personally inside the city. Caesar asked for special allowance but the senate would hear nothing of it. So Caesar managed to corrupt certain politicians which weakened the already financial strained republic. Then, Caesar went away again and Pompey was elected sole consul and the senate ordered that Caesar, when he returned, must lay down his command. This sparked a civil war between the supporters of both sides. Something as simple as this can destroy a republic. The Middle East is already generally despised, so as long as it was in stages (the Nazi's way), it wouldn't be too hard to ease the American People into a total war with them, especially since the memory of WW2 is dying with its veterans. The American youth nowadays are irreverent, irresponsible, and disrespectful. A world war happened merely 20 years after the first, I think we're overdue, especially since modern weapons technology is so advanced. We could lay waste to millions in a second. A democracy is only as restrained as its people. Obama has huge support, and if the Middle Eastern terrorists do something else terrible to us, we won't hesitate to fight them once-and-for-all. || >>> Well of course some Muslims don't desire peace, but that's not the point <<< || If they don't desire peace, and we're going through an economic crisis, and they attack us again, what will happen? || >>> He fails to realize the extremists plan - they don't want a full-scale war (they know they will lose against Western might). Rather, they want a movement. Quite different from WORLD WAR 3. <<< || They will lose against western might right now… but in less than ten years that could change, and then the tides of power will turn. || >>> He fails to respond to my question of why the Muslims would even attempt to wage war against Western powers when they know the military might of Western powers are much greater. Even if they were to suddenly shut off foreign oil supplies, this can be seen as an act of war already. <<< || Same as above… || >>> He says my question of "how do you know every country will be part of it" is SEMANTICS. This is categorically wrong. It is certainly not a "semantics argument", and my opponent shouldn't abuse the term. It's clear and explicit: how do you know every country you have listed will be part of it? Such a complete and large collaboration would take a tremendous event; the magnitude of that which has never been witnessed in mankind's history. I suspect that such a burden for my opponent was too much, so he decided to somehow "dismiss it". <<< || Every major country will be a part of it in the same way that every one was part of the First World War. It was started by something as inconsequential as an assassination between two relatively small countries, but since they were supported by stronger countries, sides were chosen and war started.