(January 9, 2016 at 2:20 pm)abaris Wrote:(January 9, 2016 at 1:47 pm)AtlasS33 Wrote: They already "owned" property and already have most wealth in Mecca. Take somebody like Uthman Ibn Affan :
Well, so? Dick Cheney had massive wealth. Didn't prevent him to support the invasion of Iraq and making sure that Haliburton, where he held a rather impressive share, to get the most lucrative contracts.
Chenny was playing war economy; sacrificed the small pawns to get to the bigger price, that is one thing, supporting a prophet who is preaching a new religion that officially calls for shutting down main sources of income in ancient Arabia such as "raids & looting" along with risking the trading caravan routes, also risking the men working under the trader to prosecuted, I mean this is so different than what Dick did in the invasion of Iraq.
The invasion of Iraq was a 100% chance of winning the war & engineer a whole load of destruction afterwards; following in a context called "war economy". A big difference there.
