If we don't fight them in Iraq...

[troublemaker]

If we don't fight them in Iraq then some Arabs will have to fight them in Tunis or someplace we haven't even heard of!

Hmmmm... doesn't have the same 'oomph' as Bush's version, does it? I had to laugh reading the following paragraph from Spencer Ackerman's interview with the rogue American intel official 'anonymous' (who has a book coming out July 4th):

TPM: Is this just a fatal and unavoidable contradiction of Saudi Arabia?

ANONYMOUS: It's a very difficult issue. It's hard for me, and there's other people far more expert on the kingdom, but I cannot see it reconciled in the near term. The Saudis had a breathing space in the '80s because they exported so much of their young men who were bin Laden-like to Afghanistan. For a decade they kept their unhappy young militants focused on fighting the Soviets. Now they have a problem, because those folks are home--although I would suspect that the Saudis and the Egyptians and the Tunisians and the Algerians and the rest of them are exporting some of their militants to Iraq, with the same idea that they can fight the jihad there and hopefully they won’t come back alive. But to answer your question, there’s a fundamental danger to the existence of the Saudi regime if they press too hard on counterterrorism.

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/

How would you like to tell some bereaved American widow that her husband died to free up prison space in Algeria? (Has anyone seen the old OUTER LIMITS episode The Zanti Misfits? If so, you're familiar with the concept.)

[stavka]

1. Imagine if the Saudi Kingdom exported animators and doctors...

I don't see a Koranic conflict in either, as long as the animators aren't real good with faces.