Quote Originally Posted by Philipvs Vallindervs Calicvla View Post
Apathy is a symptom of the decline, not a cause.

We would hem and haw considerably less if if we had HMS Vanguard and her battlegroup to just sit off the Levantine Coast and blow stuff up.
And all the innocent people with him?
A hundred years ago you would have sent boots on the ground to dislodge him and sent a lot of condolences to crying mothers for the next 50 years or more. Wasn't the latter the reason that everybody left Afghanistan to that other caliph?