The answer was obvious, not avoided, but you don't want to see it. Thanks for trying anyway.
The SA government's balancing between the radical Islam of its people and and civilization. With SA's strategic position in the world's economy, this administration would find an excuse to remove an al-Queda based government, with or without a smiling face.
My last post was an attempt to get you to recognize that the example that you used of smiling evil, Iran, is in fact on our target list, and if we had a base there today, we wouldn't be leaving no mater what. But you have your mind made up.