[AGAviator]

You have to bring some to get some. We need to make sure we're not supporting regimes which practice violence against them, either by fellow Islamic dictators or others, or we will have the monumental task of attempting to impose our will on people all over the world who outnumber us four to one.

[powderhorn]

We need to make sure we're not supporting regimes which practice violence against them,...

I do understand this, but am also very pessimistic about Islamic leaders taking any significant role in world politics. Any theocracy is at least 500 years out of date. The regimes that exist in place of pure Islamic rule are willing to take the necessary steps to trade with the rest of the world. Islamic rule, it seems, would prefer to have the rest of the world regress 500 years. Neither the current regimes or the Islamic people within those nations see democracy, the rule of law or individual rights as options. Our problem is: what regime do we want to support, one that we can do business with or one that we can't do business with?