Originally Posted by Ironhorse

To all you paper tigers I say ROARRR, the reality of war is quite different than the GFY version, we are barely keeping it together with Afghanistan and Iraq, hit Iran too and there will be further backlash of unprecedented proportion. How do you think Islam got as big as it did during the time of Mohammed? The regional people were sick and fed up with the way things had been for centuries under Greek and Byzantine rule and warfare and gladly accepted something new, while once powerful empires collapsed under their own weight, their military over extended and their economies exhausted by too much war. Talk about a revolution? Read your history folks..