[SauronOfMordor]

Military victory against whom exactly?

The current expounders of Islamism and Islamic terrorism, mostly Saudi Arabia, Syria, and Iran. Iran is on the edge of overthrowing the mullahs, so I would wait and give some discrete aid to the rebels. Syria and Saudi would not last 48 hours against the forces currently positioned in Iraq. India would take out Pakistan quickly if we ever gave them the green light.

A few more 9/11-type incidents, or even one super-9/11, and it would not be hard to get the American people behind doing a Carthage on the Muslim world. And the US military could take out the combined militaries of the entire remainder of the billion-person Muslim world in 72 hours

[Luis Gonzalez]

"The current expounders of Islamism and Islamic terrorism, mostly Saudi Arabia, Syria, and Iran."

BINGO!

The majority (nearly 80%) of the world's Muslims live outside those areas.

"And the US military could take out the combined militaries of the entire remainder of the billion-person Muslim world in 72 hours."

So, you're ready to attack China and Indonesia?

[Luis Gonzalez]

There are an estimated 1.2 billion Muslims in the world. The Organization of Islamic Countries has 55 member states. The ten countries with the largest Muslim population are: Indonesia (170.3 million), Pakistan (136 million), Bangladesh (106 million), India (103 million), Turkey (62.4 million), Iran (60.7 million), Egypt (53.7 million), Nigeria (47.7 million), and China (37.1 million). Of these countries only Egypt is an Arab country. Most Arabs are Muslims, but most Muslims are not Arabs.