[DoctorMichael]

Replacing them could be messy. However, THEY may leave us with no other choice...........and given the choice between the precious soverignty of a bunch of medieval homicidal neaderthals and our survival, I'll take us any time.

[finnigan2]

A military takeover, while probably as rapid as the Iraq campaign will never happen due to the highly symbolic nature of Mecca. Then the Arab street would REALLY get angry! No, I think the old Roman, "divide and conquer" approach would have to be used. Some sort of surrogate Saudi's who would be willing to topple the ancien regime for a piece of the pie.