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Originally Posted by Cdnwolf
Don't forget what happened in Paris... instead of launching a nuke at Belorussia what if France launched one at ISIS in the Middle East... image the repercussions.
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It would be ugly. The other reality wouldn't be much better. ISIS is a Sunni based extremist group created in a backlash against Shiite oppression. What if we bombed ISIS out of existence, and the Shiite extremists (backed by a possibly nuclear Iran) took over in Syria, Iraq, Yemen, and Lebanon. The pressure on Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and The Emirates would be extreme. Israel would be virtually under siege. I believe that even Egypt would be in potential jeopardy during a Shiite "Arab Spring" where (western aligned?) moderate Muslims were being persecuted.