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Years from now, historians may look back on October 7, 2023, as the dark day that triggered an unescapable descent to global war.
For from the moment Israel rose to its self-defense in answer to a savage Hamas terrorist attack, Washington DC must have recognized the awful potential of this conflict to engulf the entire region — and perhaps, most terrifyingly, the world.
Now, as a heavily armed, Iranian-trained terror army eyes a full-scale bombardment of the Jewish State from Lebanon, there is an undeniable nightmare scenario looming just beyond Israel's borders.
It's a terrible chain of events kicking off with tens of thousands of Hezbollah rockets raining down on Israel, provoking increasingly destructive rounds of counterattack and escalation, and pushing the small nation of 9 million to its breaking point.
Drawn by the prospect of realizing their dark apocalyptic vision of the complete and utter destruction of Israel, the Islamist mullahs of Tehran activate their terrorist proxies from Syria to Iraq and beyond.
U.S. forces across the Middle East are attacked.
Urged by Iran, Syria's blood-soaked dictator Bashar Al-Assad's deploys his illicit chemical weapons stockpile.
Oil trade is ground to a halt by the Iranian Revolution Guard chocking off the viral Strait of Hormuz.
And the Islamic Republic itself unleashes hundreds of long-range missiles on Tel Aviv, straining missile defense systems and compelling America to enter the fray before all is lost.
How this dreadful specter ends is anyone's guess. It's no wonder President Joe Biden has ominously warned, 'any country, any organization, anyone thinking of taking advantage of this situation,' to back off.
'Don't,' said the president. 'Don't.'
The veiled threat was surely directed at Iran, as America deployed two nuclear-powered aircraft carriers - the USS Gerald Ford and USS Dwight D Eisenhower -to the eastern Mediterranean Sea along with the carriers' supporting strike groups.
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