Count me as one of those who call it WW 4. WW3 was the war against Communism, in which over 110,000 Americans died from 1946-1991.
WW4 begins at least in November 1979 with the taking of the embassy hostages in Teheran. Some make the case that it goes back to the assassination of Robert Kennedy by Sirhan Sirhan in 1968, which could have been a blatant attempt by Arafat and others to affect a Presidential race, at a time when we already had a leader assassinated, with Martin Luther King's death earlier that year.
So far, about six thousand Americans have been killed in WW4.
Also, please tell Chris Hitchens he did an admirable job standing up to that puke, Bill Maher, last week on HBO. I liked his hand signals to Bill's dopey audience. I could only stand to watch it because he was on it. Please invite him to the event in DC on the 23rd.