Sooner or later, they will get lucky and get hold of a few kilos of anthrax, or a bit of smallpox, or crash an LNG tanker into a downtown, etc. Or they will succeed with the next Operation Bojinka and smuggle bombs onto 20 passenger jets, all set with timers to go off at the same second. (2# of semtex in a shaving cream can with a casio watch timer, for instance.) Sooner or later, their most evil fantasies of destruction of the West are going to succeed. They won't stop until we stop them. What will stop them is pricking the bubble of their insane murder cult, the talisman of omnipower which motivates them, the black moon-god rock.
It may take years, but that is the end game, IMHO.
I guess I don't see this war as a war against Islam.
I see it as a battle against "MILITANT" Islam.
I know many people who are Muslim and do not pose any threat to any of us. They aren't any different from us... they're Americans, enjoying life in the US, have family, and cherish peace.
So, the problem isn't really Islam... the problem is the militant fascist view of OBL/Bathists/etc.
Control of media in that Middle East may be needed to really change things. I wonder where Ruppert Murdoch's satellite investments are located w.r.t. middle eastern nations.