Hello Dave,   
      
    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!   
      
   DD>More people been killed in the name of religion than for any other   
   DD>cause.   
      
   The same can be said about science, rather than religion.   
      
   DD>While all wars, at root, are fought over food -- religion (even if   
   DD>it is a disguised land grab) is the proximate cause and excuse and   
   DD>"justification" for the war. Wars of aggression are just armed   
   DD>robbery writ large.   
      
   All wars are economic (an exchange of human lives for real estate).   
   However, there are many excuses.  Such as religion or science.  For   
   example, the conflict between Protestants and Catholics in Ireland   
   is about land, not religion.  The conflict between the Arabs and the   
   Jews in Palestine is about land, not religion.  The list can go on   
   forever, since the beginning of time (or at least since the time   
   that man has walked this earth).   
      
    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.   
      
    DD> Buy their oil and let 'em stew in their own juices.   
      
   Had we only continued to do so in regards to Iraq rather than   
   invade the country so that one Iraqi would be executed.  Now that   
   the dictator is dead, we are again buying oil from Iraq.  As a new   
   dictator has taken his place.   
      
   I just hope BO does not make the same mistake in Iran as GWB did in   
   Iraq.  We really do not need any more wars.  Especially wars for oil.   
      
   --Lee   
      
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