[steveyp]

Yes. No troops. Bomb them back 50 years. No rebuilding $. Fund resistance. No troops. Every few hundred years you have to send the musselmen back to their preferred age of development. Watch them recover with wariness and readiness to reapply the lesson in time.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Iranians are not Arabs. Not even close genetically. They are a whole different enemy, a lot tougher and smarter than any Arab country. A real tangle with the Iranians would make Afghanistan look like a cake walk.