Vatican on Alert - ISIS Threat

[dyresand]

You should care. It would probably be the precursor to an all-out war.

How many tanks does the Vatican have?

In "spirit" they have many in reality they have one.

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So walk me through this -- say hypothetically, ISIS(L) makes good on their threat and launches an attack resulting in harm or death of the Pope.

Then what? What does the semi-homogeneous "west" do about it?

They are already a very naughty group indeed and not exactly on everyone's XMAS card list.

Vatican City is a sovereign nation, and as Davka points out they have no useful military forces of their own. Their formal neutrality means that they have no security treaty with any other nation, either. They'd have to ask another country to undertake the war on the Vatican's behalf. Italy could perhaps be pushed into that position, because by treaty Italy is supposed to treat an attack on the Pope as an attack on the Italian king, but that's a little bit of a stretch.

I imagine us Americans would be easy to sway into another foreign adventure, unfortunately.

You now same old same old visit foreign places take in the sites protect the masses kill the enemy we have been doing that for awhile... and too long... why doesn't the middle east get its shit together and take care of its own problems...i mean i know we have to help but... geeze....14 years of war... and still having to deal with religiously fanatical people.