Ah, Little Hawk,
you miss the whole end point of this game "Neo-Con". The Win Scenario is to bring on Armeggedon, and the final uplifting of the sacred (I typed scared first off!) 144,000, or whatever number you subscribe to, from the Temple Mount at Jerusalem, as per the Game Manual written in sections over the last several thousand years of History. ther is no possible draw or or withdrawl scenario - the Game continues until the end condition is met.

Of course you have to be an extreme fundamentalist (or fake it!) to play, but you can optionally take a role as either a Jewish, Christian or Muslim Character type.

Oil, water, overpopulation, "codes of honour", etc, are useful game tactics, but the real purpose of the game is to be one of those ascending to Heaven. Loosing Global Thermonuclear War is one Game Scenario, The Big Fast Flying Lump From Outter Space is a Random Option that you cannot control - unless you divert valuable resources to achieve the Control Task, provoking Terrorism to allow you to proceed to Rule By Military Law, there's lot of Game Options. The slow strangling via ecologial pollution and global warming takes the most guts to play, as the outcome is not guaranteed.

The best bet seems to be to provoke Jihad as an excuse to loose GTW.

The Truth is Out There - on the Net! I have seen it!


You think I'm joking, don't you?...

"Oh little town of Bethlehem,
How still we see thee lie.
Above thy deep and lifeless sleep,
The mushroom clouds roll by.

Yet in thy dark streets shineth,
That mushroom's glaring light.
The hopes and fears of all the years
Went up to Heaven, tonight."