(June 25, 2014 at 2:04 pm)Fidel_Castronaut Wrote: If we were looking for a real, regional threat to the entirety of the Middle East then I don't think it's too much of a stretch to cite ISIS as that threat. Let's thank our stars, ironically, that Iraq didn't have any WMDs otherwise ISIS is surely the group that would end up using them.Er, I think that threat already exists. Just over the border is Iran with an increasing nuke program, a genocidal desire to wipe Israel off the map, and a belief that they can hasten the "end times" by fomenting apocalyptic war:
"For those unacquainted with the more obscure tenets of Islamic theology, the 12th Imam is held by devout Shi’ite Muslims to be a direct descendant of the Prophet Mohammed who went into “occlusion” in the ninth century at the age of five and hasn’t been seen since. The Hidden Imam, as he is also known by his followers, will only return after a period of cosmic chaos, war and bloodshed — what Christians call the Apocalypse — and then lead the world into an era of universal peace."
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2007/09/will-t...-with-iran
