In the near future, welcome to the wild, wild West - worldwide. If there is another major terrorist assault in America, they will have awakened an apparent sleeping giant, in light of the Democratic gains this past congressional election. The next Republican president will be no one to fool with.

When awakened, there will be an assault on the Arab world very much like World War II and the German Axis. We took care of that issue quickly. Instead of planes in Germany, the United States, Britain, France and Germany will use nuclear weapons and planes. They will join us because they are having internal strife with their Muslim populations. They face future takeover politically. So I am told, it is beginning to happen already.

In this war Israel will mop up the ones left, and peoples around the world will hunt down and kill indiscriminately leftover terrorists worldwide, as if they were sitting ducks. ... It will be the Salem witch hunt, the Nuremburg trials and Simon Wiesenthal's hunt for guilty Germans rolled into one.

China will not bother the United States, Germany, France, Britain and others because it needs the money for the sale of its products. Their ally, Russia, is weak and broke.

What you will have is a very few jihad Arabs to cause trouble, and a more stable world. Africa will be decimated by AIDS and the land will, I hope, be farmed properly and will feed the world good, real food.

Five billion against less than one billion is a no-brainer. Terrorists, wake up - the alarm clock is about to go off.

Michael J. Rhoden, North Augusta, S.C.