Agreed.
You never know when someone is going to get "religion" and do what Allah wants done.
Maj. Nidal Hasan at FT. Hood is an example of that.
The Koran and Hadiths will spell out what to do to please Allah. -tom
Having said that, until we destroy the intellectual underpinning of world terrorism (within the Quran and Hadith), there will be plenty of people willing to continue their murderous reign of barbarism.
Agreed.
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Its a little simpler to destroy the financial underpinnings.
That means kill the price of oil. That’s how reagan took down the old soviet union.
The final death of oil prices will happen but not in the next couple years. It won’t start for another 5 years. However, starting about 2020—alternatively fueled vehicles will take ever larger bites out of total worldwide demand for oil.
When that happens, there won’t be the vast amounts of money floating around the middle east to fuel the ambitions of the locals.