Iraq + Iran + Afghanistan = WWIII, with U.S. Trapped in the Middle

At least one expert sees a "perfect storm" of warfare that could involve much of the civilized, high-tech world -- with the United States the primary protagonist.

Too many factors are coalescing at the same time: The United States' untimely incursion into Iraq which is in its fourth year of bloody stalemate; the recent offensive initiated against American troops in Afghanistan in the shadows of a monstrous U.S. Embassy compound now being erected in Kabul; Iran's lightning-speed road to full-blown, missile-fueled nuclear capability; Hamas' legal election to power in Palestine, now officially and openly funded by $50 million "seed money" from Iran; legions of suicide bombers now being trained in a half-dozen Muslim paraiah states.

It doesn't get much worse than this.

At home, another hurricane season is on the way, and forecasters have minced no words -- this year, the Northeast is prime for a mega-hit of Katrina-like proportions. It's one thing for New Orleans to be wiped out (which it was and still is), but quite another for Washington D.C., Baltimore, Philadelphia and even New York to get hurricaned to death.

Already overwhelmed by record tornado strikes in the heartland and flooding rains in the Pacific region, we as Americans might be up against threats -- foreign, domestic and natural -- that we can't absorb all at once.

Get out the survival gear. Be prepared to do without power for weeks, even months, at a time. Get a job closer to home. Don't commute if you can help it. Make local alliances so communities can hold together when times get tougher. Your best friend will be a small gas-fueled generator. Get one now.

Start appealing to a higher power to slow the momentum of global dislocation which almost upon us. Otherwise, the culture of humanity accumulated over the past 10,000 years will be lost forever.