Do you anticipate that they will conquer the U.S.? Enslave us? Force us to convert to Islam? If so, how do you expect them to overcome our arsenal of over 10,000 nuclear weapons, in addition to our conventional weapons?
Good question. Very good question.
Assume that the Jihadists, after a long struggle, establish a Caliphate over the Mid East and South Asia. Imagine that countries such as Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Kuwait, the Emirates, Yemen and Qatar are charter members. Imagine that Nigeria and Brunei are deeply sympathetic if not outright members. Now, imagine the repercussions, a few of which are:
1.- Reliable sources of oil do not exist;
2.- Pakistan provides nuclear weapons;
3.- Terror against the US and the West increases exponentially;
4.- Our economies tank, making the Great Depression look like a walk in the park;
5.- We are in a permanent war-footing with a huge amount of our resources devoted to military expenditures;
6.- Do I really need to go any further?
These, in my view, are the dangers, and the reasons why the Jihadists need to be defeated now. They need to get disabused of the notion that they can defeat us like they think they defeated another superpower in Afghanistan.
You might recall that I posted a very derogatory post about Brezinzki a few days ago. He discounted the impact of Islamisn on world politics during the cold war era when he said that "What was more important in the world view of history? A few stirred up Muslims or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the Cold War?"
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A few stirred up Muslims, indeed. |
