“I think we could pretty much rule out the wisdom of an attempt to conquer SA. We wouldn’t have had the slightest clue what to do with it. Muslims need a stern kingdom and America piddled around trying to install democracies where the people are ill suited to it.”
I just imagine in the circumstances following 911, a President Trump would have called up those fat f__k’s in SA with a short message: “if we see anything remotely resembling this again, and we won’t be calling, we will be bombing you flat!” What W did was a business rather than a policy decision. Bombing those turds would have screwed up the “oil bidnus” on which he and his family were making their real living.
All of America depended on foreign oil too. That was a difficult situation to do anything else but soft pedal the trouble in. Trump would be more in character to say something blustery to SA, true.