[Cronos]

DO: With a guy like Hussein, he doesn’t mellow out and get less dangerous. He and his sons were almost demonic people.

I never said he would mellow out. his aim was to become another Nimrud with his Akkadian Empire

But he would have had his hands full with the Iranis (who he hated and who hated him). To the north, the Turks. To the West he would probably have taken out the Assads but be held back by Shias in Lebanon and Alawis and Druze (not to mention Israel). To the south, his army may have taken the Gulf area but not into Mecca and Medina

Finally - he may have been "almost demonic" in your opinion, but I say he was a pussy cat compared to the Islamic state

And, since I am unashamedly pro-Christian, my take is that he was better for Christians than the other alternatives

[DoughtyOne]

Thank you for your addition insight here.

I’m not familiar with Nimrud or the Akkadian Empire.