He's a ringer?

Never seen him ring a peal in any of our local towers. Mind you, never noticed any black dude change ringing. ..

If that sounds silly and prosaic, it matches my thoughts when I saw the name of this thread. Nobody can work out the Middle East Co dependencies and national interests. It would be better for Western countries to have a dictatorship where the voting majority would welcome a religious state. See Egypt for details. ...

So there is a chance, believe it or not, that the reaction to the germ warfare might be a humanitarian concern. If somebody could tell me what Western leaders would gain by another theocracy in the area, then and only then would I stop laughing at the absurdity of the thrust of this thread.