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To: Cronos

Cronos, it seems to me that if you take the capital of Saudi Arabia, you become the defacto government those tribes still answer to.

Hussein could have promised them to leave them alone and let them do as they pleased much like the Saudis had. I doubt they would have argued with that.

Perhaps there are sect issues I haven’t figured in. If so then you may have a good retort.


174 posted on 04/21/2015 2:14:59 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (The question, Jeb Bush? The answer: NO! Rove, is a devious propagandist & enemy of Conservatives!)
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To: DoughtyOne
Cronos, it seems to me that if you take the capital of Saudi Arabia, you become the defacto government those tribes still answer to.

No. If you take Mecca and Medina then you have influence over the Islamic world, but no, you don't rule over the other tribes in Arabia

Riyadh was only the capital of the peninsula when the Sauds who come from Riyadh, conquered the other emirates around the Arabian peninsula. It was a s***-hole before.

190 posted on 04/21/2015 2:55:12 AM PDT by Cronos (ObamaÂ’s dislike of Assad is not based on AssadÂ’s brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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