[DesertRhino]

The Germans and Japanese used to be the most cruel vicious SOBs on the earth. They both got an attitude adjustment and are now the nicest, most pacifist peoples around. They build things the world loves.

We lost a golden opportunity after 9/11. 10 H-bombs could have changed the world. Medina, Riyadh, Damascus, Tehran, Baghdad, Islamabad, Kabul, and of course three of our largest on Mecca.
I was president, I would order all Americans and foreigners to leave the named cities on the 13th or remain at your own risk. Nationalize all their assets on the 14th. Do it on 9/15. Then continue over here like nothing ever happened.
They would be a much better place today.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

*applause*

[Fungi]

It would only take one—on Mecca. If Mecca disappeared along with that pagan Q’abba rock, Islam would have lost one of its very pillars of faith. Can't make the Haj, can't make it to heaven (in Islam you never know if you are accepted by Alllah) so no religion. They would not like that but what could they do? The end of Damascus is foretold in Isaiah, probably from a strategic drop by Israel before Armageddon. Don't rush the end, I still have a few more things to do.