re: #59 ProGunLiberal

I don’t see any other way to stop it. As long as Saudi exists, people will continue to be under attack. What options to you think there are?

I’m going for the one that is mostly likely to permanently damage the Salafists. The loss of their pimp state.

I’d prefer a ‘gradual change from within’ option to a war. Wars introduce massive amounts of instability into things, and someone who touches one off may find the war’s course very different than that which he (and sometimes she) planned.

I commend to your attention the example of Hannibal Barca of Carthage. He thought his conquest of Saguntum would at worst be the start of a moderate-length war where he undermined and destroyed the commonwealth system that had given Rome its place of power in Italy, only to see a much longer war end with Carthage defeated and the Iberian lands his family had fought so hard to gain for her in Roman hands.