More World War III Talk

Now, Newt Gingrich is likening the War on Terror to World War III. While I lost all respect for Gingrick when he left his second wife in the middle of cancer, he remains a political analyst of considerable insight.

"This is World War III," Gingrich said. And once that's accepted, he said calls for restraint would fall away:
"Israel wouldn't leave southern Lebanon as long as there was a single missile there. I would go in and clean them all out and I would announce that any Iranian airplane trying to bring missiles to re-supply them would be shot down. This idea that we have this one-sided war where the other team gets to plan how to kill us and we get to talk, is nuts."
There is a public relations value, too. Gingrich said that public opinion can change "the minute you use the language" of World War III. The message then, he said, is "'OK, if we're in the third world war, which side do you think should win?"

Of course, Gingrich is not speaking in a vacuum. He wants to the Republican nominee for president in 2008 (another Republican I would not vote for in the general election). But it may be the beginning of a movement toward recognizing that this is NOT another "police action" like Vietnam, Korea, or even the first Gulf War. This is truly a War.