[BubbaTheRocketScientist]

Are you suggesting we nuke the UAE?

I am merely suggesting that the claim "we can use economic measures to win the War on Terror" is absurd. The same can be said of using "free trade" to cause the downfall of Communism in Red China.

The kinds of economic policies have never been sucessfully applied without first utterly defeating an enemy either on the battlefield (as we did with the Germans and Japanese) or running them bankrupt (as Reagan did to the Soviets).

It is foolhardy to think we can skip the "bombing them into submission" part and make friends by merely buying their goodwill.

[Rokke]

"It is foolhardy to think we can skip the "bombing them into submission" part and make friends by merely buying their goodwill."

Let me summarize for you....you think we should nuke the UAE.