In Afghanistan, the government is divorced from the religion.
In Iraq, the government is divorced from the religion.
Now... this divorce isn't going to happen over night. The religion hates the fact that church and state will be separated and will fight long and hard to prevent that from happening... but for the region to change, this has to happen... and we have to stand our ground (even at cost of lives) and make it happen.
But what has happened after 9/11 is a good strong and clear start of the Bush stratergy...
I do totally agree with you that PC is truly killing us... PC has to be the first casualty, here on the home front, on the War on Terror. If we don't kill it... we are destined to lose.