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2013-06-08 Olde Tyme Religion

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2013-06-08 02:50|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 If one branch of Islam wants to be at war with another branch for a few years -- or decades

Try a millenia.

Posted by phil_b 2013-06-08 03:54|| 2013-06-08 03:54|| Front Page Top

#2 Ye but formerly, Kim, they didn't have WMDs.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2013-06-08 06:28|| 2013-06-08 06:28|| Front Page Top

#3 These people want to kill each other. They don't mind killing civilians--some may consider it a perk--and this means they won't stop because somebody tries to talk nice.
You stop them by killing them--one side or the other--until the survivors quit. Given their level of motivation, nothing else will work.
Then the other side starts killing the ones who quit first.
Currently, it looks as if Assad will be the one to come out on top, whereupon he will be able to continue the other side without the fuss of fighting.
So the question is whether we--who is this we?--can kill enough of one side or both sides to get them to stop without killing more of them than they would kill of each other if left alone.
This will, of course, get Americans killed, give the dems another war to lose--they can't help it, it's what they do--and more excuses for other Muslims to attack us.
But, if we weren't lucky, even worse things would happen. See the Balkans ca 1914.

Posted by Richard Aubrey 2013-06-08 12:52|| 2013-06-08 12:52|| Front Page Top

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