[highlander_UW]

If AQ won control of SA, then they would make the next fatal step outside of their borders, and 20 minutes later, mecca and Medina would be glowing craters. Then we would discover if Mad Mo's Insane Murder Cult could exist after Allahs all-powerful black moon-god rock was shown conclusively to be no match for a nuclear warhead.

Do you honestly believe the U.S. would nuke Mecca and Medina?

People are very quick to advocate nuclear options, but as I mentioned to another poster, there are 1.3 Billion Muslims around the world, you nuke Mecca and Medina and you better start the draft and increase the military budget enormously as well as possibly install martial law within the U.S.

[Travis McGee]

Do you honestly believe the U.S. would nuke Mecca and Medina?Read more carefully. Where did I say the USA would nuke Mecca? I didn't. I said that Saudi Arabia under AQ leadership would do something incredibly stupid outside of its territory, and 20 minutes later Mecca would be nuked. Think about it.

But yes, I think we are building to an end game where one or more US cities will suffer a WMD attack, or smallpox etc. After that, you can bet the President will be getting serious advice about snuffing out the source of Mad Mo's Mojo, the black moon-god kaaba rock.

However, I think a closer regional power will suffer the WMD attack first, and in turn they will be the ones who turn the moon-god rock into a crater.

[Cronos]

In the event that we nuke M&M, all other activities will cease, we will become a Spartan state, a Prussian type state, with all resources dedicated to war and nothing else. Europe, Russia, the Antipodes, Israel, India, S. E. Asia will have to follow suit. China would stay out of it -- they've wisely not allowed the Muslims to come in droves into the Middle Kingdom, dtto the Japanese and Koreans.