Many people on FR, for a long time now, have been saying the democracy is NOT the antidote to fundamental islam. Such people are not wringing their hands so much as celebrating a Pyrrhic victory. The hamas election and the parlimentary wins by the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt point out that the Administration and all like-minded governments in the world need to go back to the drawing board and be honest with themselves about who the enemy is and how to defeat it.
Islam declared this war almost 1,400 years ago against the non-islamic world. Our enemy is not radical islam but just plain islam (as practiced by devout muslim). As Pipes says, democracy of the western variety can never take hold in the islamic world. Islam must first be uprooted.
Islam must first be uprooted.
Clearly, you're right. And the first stage of defining this truth, is institutionaling democracy in as much of the Islamic world as possible.
I agree with your thoughtful reply. Fundamental Islam is the problem. However, it seems to me that this makes it easier, not harder to root it out, even if it means the destruction of the Palestinians.
If they truly are a people committed to terrorism through fundamental Islam, and they have elected a government to carry out their philosophy, then they must be defeated and destroyed.
The hatred is passed down from generation to generation in some of these peoples. To stop that cycle, which leads to terrorism, it seems the generations must be interrupted. Harsh, but what other option have they presented.