[null and void]

You've defined the problem pretty well.

My solution is flatten Fallujah, salt the earth.

What's yours?

[Truthsayer20]

One solution I would consider is to do things somewhat similarly to the way they were done in Japan after WWII. Put a man like General MacArthur with dictatorial powers in charge and make it clear to everyone that fundamental change in society is required or else. Do not try to understand their "culture", no liberal social engineering. Traditional Arab and Muslim culture is the problem and cannot be mended without fundamental change, this is something Kemal Ataturk of Turkey understood very well.

[new cruelty]

It is clear these people do not fear the United States the way they feared saddam. The immediate solution to peace is simple- kill them all, problem solved (though that may bring more problems also easily dealt with one way or another). The long term solution to peace is much more difficult- suffer through this terrible period of time and hope for peace. I'd like to think I have faith that if we continue to work hard things will work out, but situations like this make it hard to resist the temptation to 'nuke the site from orbit'.