“We have to discredit this ideology, this radical Islamist ideology, for what it is,” Flynn explained. “We have to call it what it is, and we have to begin to come up with a very imaginative, very creative information campaign to discredit it.”
Right there he shows he has not a clue how to destroy the thing he’s spouting off about. There is no such thing as “radical Islamist ideology.”
There is only ‘fundamental’ Islam. Islam has always been a violent movement led by the founder who raped, robed, and murdered his way across the known world in the 7th Century. Nothing about Islam has changed since then.
Islam cannot be discredited, except by destroying the very places it holds most dear, where they believe the spirit of allah resides: Median, Mecca and the Kaaba. Short of that, there is nothing but more wool to pull over the ignorant public’s eyes while fleecing them for more money and practicing still more political correctness, which emboldens the very forces they seek to destroy by showing continued weakness. Strength in Islamic eyes is shown by the one who is most willing to kill the most people without compunction, without ridiculous ROEs.
That is what the "radical fundamentalists" want you and everyone else to believe. If you define 1.6 billion people as the enemy you are going to lose. Where do you start?
“Islam cannot be discredited, except by destroying the very places it holds most dear, where they believe the spirit of allah resides: Median, Mecca and the Kaaba.”
Old-fashioned solution:
After months of internet chatter from the same Iranian zealot group that attacked the Grand Mosque in 1979(?), a nuclear blast removes Mecca, its idols, and most everything else. All evidence points to Iran. The USA issues a strongly worded note and threatens to suspend ransom payments if this happens again. KSA declares war on Iran and lets contracts to Israel for elimination of Teheran, Abadan, and Qom, plus both Koreas for the land war [variation on an old joke]. Armageddon, etc.