[Hound of the Baskervilles]

"At some point it will come to that."

This whole thing is about NEVER getting to that point! That's why Bush is handling this in the best way possible.

[BubbaTheRocketScientist]

This whole thing is about NEVER getting to that point! That's why Bush is handling this in the best way possible.

Based on history, I'd have to strongly disagree. The Muslim world has been been making war on non-Muslims for the better part of a thousand years. The Crusades, the Battle of Tours, Thomas Jefferson and the Barbary Pirates, Black Jack Pershing in the Philippines.

The only reason this issue is prominent here and now, much more than in the past, is because of the globalization of commerce in the last one hundred years which brings more of them to our shores, worldwide demand for petroleum which has allowed them to become wealthy without developing free market economies, and nuclear weapons which would allow them to destroy our cities without having to first fight their way though our Army.