Who is more of a threat to the West? Iran, Isis, or Saudi Arabia?

[Shandris]

1. I'm going to be the martyr here and say ISIS, but not for the reason one supposes.

Rather, their 'new methods' of fighting will inform a whole new generation of fighters. SA is mainly older-style fighting. A little help to Yemen could clean their clock in short order, but you know we'll never do that.

Iran isn't our enemy, realistically. They may be Israel's enemy, but so long as they're not killing each other, that isn't our problem. Yes, they do have some terror cells, but much like SA, it's more older-style stuff. ISIS is informed.

As I see it, there are currently two powerful laws fighting for dominance. Law 1: Fourth generational warfare is the most powerful we've ever known. And Law 2: Fourth generational warfare is only good until someone decides to try third. Meaning that social media is all-powerful until the weapons come out. But ISIS is trying to blend those into a superlaw, and that's something we're not equipped to deal with, should it actually become even remotely powerful.