Do not allow yourself to think religious/nationalist. Don't think that they religious won't have anything to do with nationalists because they don't get along. They get along because they have the same goal. The removal of Western culture, religion and ideology from the world - not just the Middle East - to be replaced by Islam (which to all of them, is Islam's proper place.) Shi'a or Sunni or Wahhabi... it doesn't matter. Since around the 1300's... Islam has been in a state of retreat which ended with the Ottoman Empire collapse after World War I.
But, there was nothing Islam could do about it until the oil began to flow and the money came in. Now, they have the means to fight... and they fight... shoulder to shoulder... pursuing the same goals and the same ends using the same means.
"But, there was nothing Islam could do about it until the oil began to flow and the money came in. Now, they have the means to fight... and they fight... shoulder to shoulder... pursuing the same goals and the same ends using the same means. I am sort of fixated on this particular thought. It seems so obvious that we should hurry up and quit using their oil and creating great wealth for them while at the same time making ourselves dependent on them.
I wonder if it is a coincidence that the Left fights so adamently to prevent us from drilling in Texas and Florida or wherever, and letting us be rid of those people.
I always enjoy and appreciate your insights.