Terrifying Global Thermonuclear War

Okay. So, Russia's attacking Georgia, Iran wants to asplode everybody whose names start with "US" or "Israel", John McCain hates Spain, and meanwhile people are dying in Africa, like they always have been forever ever since Sally Struthers discovered the continent in 1980, and nobody cares.

I always thought that World War III wouldn't happen until we had flying cars, but then again, I also thought we'd have flying cars by now. If we end up in another global war, even a Cold one, it's going to totally suck, even if the only negative factor is that we don't have pew pew cannons by now. I really wanted the pew pew cannons.

Of course, there is the fact that our entire Air Force uses radar-deflecting technology, the A-10 Warthog is basically a gun with wings that can shoot through tanks, the Apache Longbow is one of the most fearsome things known to mankind, and that the people who invent new missiles have invented everything under the sun. I even bet there's a missile that specifically targets door-to-door solicitors. We are a disgustingly armed nation. That's fine if we get into, say, one conflict. All it takes is for someone suitably large to want to come over and fry our bacon, and then everybody else on our embargo list will want to jump in.

Maybe. There's always the chance that we'd just be total pricks and nuke the little guys to get them out of the way while we go after the big guns. HUMANITARIAN CRISIS BE DAMNED. 

There's also the gigantic possibility that I read far too much science fiction, which has taught me this: post-apocalyptic mutant girls are never sexy.