If the eternal goal of Islam has always been to spread itself throughout the world by force, then how is it that it has not even succeeded in vanquishing an idolatrous society like that of Hindo India in a period of over a thousand years?
The US cannot defeat Islam, just as no one can destroy Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism or any other religion. Declaring war on a world religion will only produce martyrs, and is even dumber than declaring war on an abstract npoun such as terror or drugs.
The main thing that this clown refuses to recognize is that Al Qaeda and the so-called Islamic fundamentalists are on the defensive. Islam today is about in the same position as Catholicism was in the early 1500's: the fanaticism and intolerance is seriously threatened and inevitably doomed, not by the ersatz "war on terror", but by modern technology. There can and will be no economic development in the Islamic world - at least the part of it that is not oozing oil money, like Qatar, the UAE and Brunei, without an abandonment of the restriction against investing money at interest, and eventually inconveniences like prayers five times per day and banning women from the workplace.
Al Qaeda has accomplished relatively nothing while on the offensive: 3000 people killed in 9-11, several hundred more in bombings here and there are nowhere near normal traffic fatalities, even though they have provided a lot of ammo for the deprivation of the rights of hundreds of millions in the US and other countries and the utterly silly and mismanaged war in Iraq.
The only thing greater in incompetence than Osama in destroying the West is Juniorbush's bungling the only war that had a raison d'etre: the one in Afghanistan, which COULD and SHOULD have been won years ago, save for the toitla incompetence of Juniorbush and Cheney.
Most Moslems simply want progress and to be left the Hell alone to achieve it on their own terms. Intervention is counter productive.
