Word: doomsdayers
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...Doomsday predictions, of course, have long been a staple of Middle East commentary. Every negotiation seems to be the "last chance" for peace. Every crisis seems to threaten the outbreak of a major war, if not the great apocalypse. But there's reason to pay attention to the warnings this time. The 1979 Camp David peace treaty between Egypt and Israel planted the seed for resolving the core of the conflict: the creation of an independent Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Arab territories seized by Israel in the 1967 war. But if the Annapolis conference fails...
...grim. The U.S. housing slump is worsening. Banking giants such as Merrill Lynch and Citigroup are posting record losses. The U.S. dollar is getting pounded by the British pound - and virtually every other currency. Oil has run up as high as $98 per bbl., and gold - the traditional doomsday investment - has topped $800, its highest level since the early 1980s...
...collective suicide by not reproducing fast enough; secondly, Muslims are replacing these sterile sons of Europe. This argument isn’t solely the domain of the religious right—Oriana Fallaci, a vitriolic Italian atheist, made similar arguments—but theocons are undoubtedly the most vocal doomsday prophets...
...arguments advanced to support continuing the Iraq war are eerily reminiscent of the domino theory used to justify extending the Vietnam War. That doomsday prophecy didn't come true, and ending the American presence in Iraq won't be as bad as war supporters claim. As William Faulkner wrote, "The past isn't dead. It isn't even past...
...professors are not necessarily in agreement with these doomsday predictions, why do they make a point of explaining them in class? ESPP concentrator Simi Bhat ‘08, a student in Moorcroft’s class last spring, says that she sees the teaching of these ideas as a precautionary measure. “I think the professors feel obligated to address these long-term projections just so we know more about them” she says. “I think that they believe that we’ll do something to address the problems...