The more things change, the more they stay the same. I guess the urge to wipe out, annihilate, utterly lay waste to people you don't like is an old one.

When it was two small tribes, a la Nat. American style, it was nasty and brutish but at least half the world wasn't a smoldering, poisoned ruin.

All out war against Islamic forces would be serious stuff -- with China craving their energy and Russia enjoying their trade with the region. Not sure how happy Japan would be with their gas prices doubling or tripling.

These grasstoppers have either been smoking too much of their namesake or not enough. Whack jobs.

__________________
Te futueo et caballum tuum

1986 300SDL, 362K
1984 300D, 138K