Take them out with "far less loss of life"? Wouldn't that be somewhat akin to busting out walls in a roach infested home, but letting the little buggers just run around - but not killing them. That doesn't fix the problem.
As Limbaugh might say, a cockroach is a cockroach is a cockroach. The only way to remove an infestation of 1000 cockroaches is to kill 1000 cockroaches.
Muslims, even radical, violent, murdering, terrorist Islamofascists, are human. Many of the people in large cities aren't even Muslim to begin with. Some have to be killed, but most can adapt to living responsibly in a more or less free society.
We've already made progress in both Afghanistan and most parts of Iraq. We may well succeed in what was perhaps the worst viper pit on the planet - Falluja, after killing only a few thousand, and imprisoning a few more thousand.
If you think it makes you more of a man to protest that the lives of a thousand Iraqi are not worth the life of a single U.S. Marine, go ahead and say it.
I'm glad that George W. Bush is President. He knows the difference between a cockroach and a human.