text: if the us were pushed into a carpet-bombing of islam, who would help muslims? this is a serious question actually. im looking for machevaliian analysis here, stuff like:   "well, the chinese might committ forces where they could make some type of territorial argument" or   "while the entire un would be up in arms, and trade embargos might follow, but no non-muslim countries interests would be threatened enough to consider fighting with muslims"  world war 1 was touched off with the assassination of the arch duke (muslim involved by the way). treaties were implicated and sides were drawn based on who had treaties with who.  i dont see what treaties or alliances today could ever be implicated in such a scenario. particularly considering the fact that most western countries suffer from some level of jihadist terror and even far left wackos, who openly support jihadists, privately acknowledge the global problem of jihad. do you really think any liberal truely understands machiavelli?  he makes too much sense on ruling with an iron fist.