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Next thing you know they'll call us the Great Satan and declare jihad.

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"Next thing you know they'll call us the Great Satan and declare jihad."

And if 51% of them agree with that position, isn't that democracy? And what then?

Our continual pumping of the notion that democracy is the highest value, is coming back to bite us on the butt.

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Next thing you know they'll call us the Great Satan and declare jihad.

I'm giving it two years maximum from the fall of Baghdad
until exactly that happens.  If they can get past two years
without religious war or armed revolt, Iraq might work.