Originally Posted by CDSmith

As well as any scientist which has ever postulated an unproven theory. Which is all of them.

At any rate, there are in fact muslims in the world who are less militant than others. Ask a muslim "Are you a muslim?",
whereupon he says "yes, I am",
and you say "Do you believe in the forced conversion, enslavement or death for unbelievers?"
and he answers "no"
and Lanzonby is going to say "Then you're not a muslim"

...is simply ridiculous.

Would they all band together in the event of a war? Maybe, but somehow I think that a few of them have emigrated to Canada and the US because they actually prefer our lifestyle and our standard of living.

Back to the original question of this thread.... I would say that if Iran remains on their present course they indeed will be in for decisive and very eye-opening wakeup call. I wouldn't be jumping up and down screaming like an idiot for them to be bitchslapped just yet, but in time it may come to that.

There was a good 10+ years of "diplomacy" before Saddam was taken down, lest we forget.