-=> Richard Webb wrote to Dave Drum <=-   
      
    DD> No, it wouldn't. The Islamists would fight one another - just for   
    DD> fun, sport, and their version of which view of religion is correct -   
    DD> Sunni, Shia, or Wahabi .. or some splinter group I've not heard of.   
      
    RW> This is my whole problem with us getting involved with   
    RW> anything over there.  Their "my religion is better than your religion"   
    RW> wars will continue as long as they exist.  LEt them have their kings   
    RW> and emirs, caliphs and whatever.  A plague on all their houses!   
      
   More people been killed in the name of religion than for any other cause.   
   While all wars, at root, are fought over food -- religion (even if it is a   
   disguised land grab) is the proximate cause and excuse and "justification" for   
   the war. Wars of aggression are just armed robbery writ large.   
       
    RW> IF we do anything to/for Saudi Arabia we should oblierate   
    RW> it, punch some more holes and suck it dry.  Even if we don't want to   
    RW> burn it in our gas tanks.   
      
   Buy their oil and let 'em stew in their own juices.   
      
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