[Hugin]

Of course I'm supposed to believe the cockamamie neocon drivel that there is some sort of Islam-wide conspiracy to institute a worldwide caliphate. I choose, however, to remain in the real world.

And I choose to take people at their word when they say they want to kill me. When the Supreme Leader of Iran says God has brought the Jews to Israel so they can be nuked, I think he is serious. Especially when they are actually building nukes. When their president makes his cabinet swear allegience to the 12th Immam I think he means it. As for a caliphate, again that's their words, not ours. See my tagline.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

I'm not saying that there aren't small groups of fanatics that in their wildest dreams hope for a caliphate, or there aren't other groups of fanatics out to destroy Israel. We have the advantage, however, that there is a lot of disharmony amongst them. There is very little love lost between fanatical Sunnis and Shiites.

So some small fanatical groups will try to institute a Sunni caliphate while others try to establish a Shiite caliphate. What do we lose by playing one off against the other? I'd rather they be killing themselves off, then our soldiers.