What’s Your Theory?
[This was written before my wedding.]
Most people commented that my prediction (a recent post) for the Middle East is highly improbable. Fair enough. But what prediction is MORE probable?
Will the terrorists discover Jesus and decide to stop terrorizing on their own?
Will there be permanent low-grade terror attacks but the bad guys will never get bigger or better terror weapons or WMD?
Will the good guys kill enough of the terrorists that the ongoing problem becomes a minor annoyance?
Will the terrorists get WMD and destroy the infidel countries at their leisure because terrorists are good at hiding?
Will Iraq become a prosperous democracy and cause the other countries to follow suit, thus eliminating the support base for terror?
It seems to me that every possible future is highly unlikely.
From my point of view, the terrorists will never stop, and we’ll never kill enough of them, and their weapons and tactics will improve without end. At some future point, only Draconian methods will end the threat. That’s why I predict that some hawkish Christian leader will emerge with an idea for eliminating Islam. And as horribly evil as that will be, no one will have a better idea.
Just to be clear, I’m not advocating that solution. I just predict it will happen.
But I’m seriously interested in your opinions. What is the MOST LIKELY outcome from the future of terror?
P.S. For those of you who said there could never be a great caliphate because there are too many different flavors of Islam and too many tribal and ethnic differences, remember that Saddam solved that very problem in Iraq. He unified the shiites and Kurds and Sunnis under one rule. It’s entirely practical if you do enough killing.