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

I applaud my opponent for his somewhat original argument, but I'm sorry to say that the mass majority of what he has said are either red herrings, false analogies, or over-exaggerations. I will first plow through his new points, then recap on the other points/issues/argument he has either dropped, or failed to refute adequately. ==================== Roman Republic is an analogy of what can happen ==================== My opponent's entire historical analogy is at a flaw: we, and most other Judeo-Christian countries, are not republics. Instead, we have a democratic system (of sorts), and a working Constitution. It's the Constitution that helps prevent an imbalance of power from happening, such as Rome. As such, this entire analogy is faulty. {quote}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.{endquote} ----> My opponent makes big claims here (American teens are irresponsible and will somehow lead us to war?), but gives absolutely no reason or evidence for any of these claims. Empty claims don't constitute to a good argument - my opponent's point here is empty and should be dropped since this is the last round, and he has no way to defend these points. {quote}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-al{endquote} ----> Again, my opponent claims that Obama will fight against the Middle-East. Not only is this an empty claim, but even if it were true how will it make half of the world join as well? My opponent once again misses the target. {quote}If they don't desire peace, and we're going through an economic crisis, and they attack us again, what will happen?...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.{endquote} ----> Again, my opponent ignores my arguments pertaining to 1. our military is much more powerful and they know it and 2. the extremists do NOT desire to have an all-out war against America or any Western powers. He says we don't know what will happen in the future, but again - that makes this debate pointless. None of us will know our technological fate in decades, so why bother speculating so far out? {quote}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.{endquote} ----> Very bad usage of history again. The assassination was only a proximal cause; there were several big factors leading to it before. First, alliances between European countries meant that if one of these countries (in the alliance) went to war, the rest would also. Secondly, imperialism meant that many countries wanted to expand their land and empires, which obviously led to tension. These are only several of the major factors leading to WW1 - you extremely oversimplify the situation. ==================== Recap and conclusion ==================== My opponent uses history like a blind man; he doesn't realize the differences between today and the examples he uses. Not only that, but he evades many of my arguments by simply stating that "it's in the future, you never know". Well duh, we might be invaded by spaghetti monsters. Does this mean we should take gigantic precautions towards this? OF COURSE NOT. While I'm not saying we should pay attention to the Middle-Eastern conflict, to over exaggerate it by stating World War 3 will happen is, by far, erroneous.