Albert Pike says that the third world war will be between the Muslim countries and her allies and Israel together with the West. I think that was wishfull thinking on his part and TPTB. To day the world is changing. People are waking up and the likes of Pike and TPTB have missed the boat. They are out now and a new era has begun.
Just think. Bush and NeoCons were brought in to specifically start a world domination and possibly start a new world war. They tried and tried but it could not be done.
The battles that the Bible has talked about has already started and is coming to the end as we speak. It was a spiritual war between the forces of evil and greed against humanity and love for each other. Clearly many will ask if the Bible was wrong because they did not see a physical armagedon. But i say to you that the real war has already happened within our minds. Our spiritual awakening has gone in to war with the greed of NeoCons and is now winning. Of course some of this spiritual war will spill in to the physical war (like Iraq, Afganistan and Israel attacking Lebenon and Gaza) but that is as far as it goes. Just take a look around. The whole world now thinks different towards Israel as it has done before.
We are seeing the begining of human awakening and the realisation that truth is different than what we have been told all these years.
Ever asked yourself how is it that USA in a matter of months has gone from one type of policy to a totally different one? USA has been defeated. The forces of evil have been defeated. TPTB that were holding the whole world as hostages have been defeated. They are gone and America has a lot of work to do in order to convince the rest of the world that she is clean now.
It is going to be a difficult task because.
A/ there are still those who are loyal to the evil of the past that are not willing to let go. They have had it too good all these times and will not go without a fight.
B/ No one trusts USA for what they have done.

It is not surprising therefore that countries such as Iran do not trust America and rightly so they are asking America to appologise for the miss-deed they have done over the years. If USA is genuine in changing their attitude then saying sorry is an acknowlegment of the evil they have done in the past and proof of their changing ways.
However if they refuse then it is evident that USA is not ready and does not deserve to be trusted just as yet.