Thomas Friedman argues the case to stay out of it in "Take a deep breath". And excoriates one of our so-called "Allies", the horrible Kingdom of Saudi Arabia:
For decades, Saudi Arabia has been the top funder of the mosques and schools throughout the Muslim world that promote the most puritanical version of Islam, known as Salafism, which is hostile to modernity, women and religious pluralism, or even Islamic pluralism.
