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You caught me out in my moderate phase.

I am definitely in the Nuke Mecca first crowd. But our strategy does not seem to involve overwhelming power against the jihadis but instead a divide and rule strategy.

I also feel that Pakistan's internal contradictions will result in a civil war sooner or later.

Eliminate Saudi Arabia and the main threat goes away.

My first choice is for Pakistan to disappear and be absorbed into India, aka the old British Raj reconstituted.

Second choice is an Economic Free trade zone on the subcontinent, with decreasing importance of British drawn borders.

Last, i've come to the conclusion that any future renaissance in islam will come from the indian subcontinent and not from arabia. The Deobandi and Barelvi schools of thought, initially tolerant, have turned nasty in the past 50 years or so. Reform may put them back on the straight and narrow. THe large population of muslims in india, a significant minority of which are modern, secular types can prove to be an example to the rest of the islamic world, starting with pakistan.