re: Iran wouldn’t negotiate in good faith with a loaded gun pointed at their head

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I don't know this for fact, but I find it hard to believe Saudi is responsible for more terrorism than Iran.

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It is simply a numbers game: globally, nearly 90% of the world’s 2 billion Muslims identify as Sunni Muslims. Saudi Arabia bankrolls charitable and ideological networks that touch almost every Sunni-majority region.

I certainly don’t mean to downplay Iran’s sponsorship of terrorism; yet that threat is primarily regional. Saudi-backed Wahhabi networks have a global reach, funding extremist networks from South Asia to Africa.

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No, they wouldn't. Those Islamist are radicals and a death cult. Many folks attempt to understand them from a Western perspective, which doesn't work.

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People like ourselves have been trying to get other people to understand this for years, and thankfully I believe people are waking up and seeing it.

Their "holy text" quite literally commands them to murder their perceived enemies. For the "pRoVe iT tO Me, wHeRe dOeS tEh qArAn sAy ThAt?" crowd, look it up for yourselves, because I'm tired of copy/pasting it for people to not reply. Do a quick search of "qaran scripture, kill them wherever you find them."

And not only are they commanded to kill us, but they have a separate tenet called "taqiyyah" that allows them to lie about their intentions and misrepresent their civilization to promote its spread, and their ultimate honor is to be martyred in combat for their cause. It's a radicalization that the typical western mind cannot fathom, but everyone needs to understand it, and quickly, because they're here in the US, in ev every State and City.

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Iran is overwhelmingly a majority Muslim nation.

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Iran is 99% muslim if you ask them while a gun is pointed to their head. That is why the figures say they are Muslim. Because to not be means death.

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Iran is 99% muslim if you ask them while a gun is pointed to their head.

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Exactly! That is a hugely secular population, especially after 49 years of rule by those nutballs.

47 year dictatorship taken down by 47.




* Get wrecked, mullah lovers!

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As long as they keep their ideology there, it's fine with me, they can be under Sharia Law all they want.

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That is how I feel about all of Islam, Iran included. Yet again, the core problem is that Saudi Arabia has long promoted its own strain of radical Islam, making it difficult to frame the region’s instability as a simple contest between evil Iran and the rest of the peace-loving Middle East.

The sectarian rivalries in the Middle East indeed are not just between Sunni and Shia Muslims; it also exists between Sunni nations. Saudi Arabia is at odd with Turkey over Ankara’s engagement with the Muslim Brotherhood.

Riyadh views the Muslim Brotherhood as an existential threat to Saudi Arabia’s monarchical rule. Saudi Arabia and Qatar have likewise been at odd over Doha’s engagement with the Muslim Brotherhood.

Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates also have strained diplomatic relationships over their competing strategic agenda in Yemen. Similarly, the U.A.E. and Qatar have a strained relationship because of their differing visions for regional stability.

Against this convoluted backdrop of shifting alliances and competing interests, it is misguided for the United States to keep inserting itself as an arbiter capable of picking winners and losers in these ancient sectarian and ideological struggles between medieval theocracies and authoritarian regimes. As the old saying goes, doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting different results is the very definition of insanity.

All the more reason to extract ourselves militarily from the Middle East. Let’s leave the sandpit of vipers once and for all.

You are dumb.

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This isn’t the way democracies go to war. This is the way dictators go to war.

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Do tell. How do democracies go to war?

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Do tell. How do democracies go to war?

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By inviting in invaders and not firing a shot.

ETA - the U.S. is a Constitutional Republic, not a Democracy per se. We have Democratic principles, but a different structure. I know that you know this, but CP Dems to be quite ignorant.