[ClaireSolt]

BUMP.
And that, my friends is why we have a cease fire. Ignite the Middle East in all-out war and all bets are off. Don't think you can control what happens, next. The French Reviolution ws on and off from 1789 to 1960.

[IronJack]

I think you're extrapolating my post. If my analysis of the differences between the American and French revolutions bears on the current crisis in the Middle East at all, it would probably recommend that some voice of sanity -- something similar to the Lockeian conservatism of the American cause -- be imposed on the region to prevent a nascent bloodbath.

In fact, when all this is said and done, that's probably what's going to be required. Otherwise, the vermin are just going to wreck every vestige of civilization.