"....hundreds of thousands of Muslims that are fighting side by side...."
The same was so with the ARVN, not so very long ago...half or more of them were VC, and another 49% of them feared for their families.....I fully support establishing secular democracy in the center of the muslim world.....but I remember full well the course of events from Jan, 1973 thru April, 1975........hopefully, the final outcome this time will be different.
I mean no disrespect to you since you know a lot more about vietnam than I (based on your username), but I really dislike the parallels being drawn between the conflicts (usually from the Kennedy crowd). In Iraq there is no central, organized opposition, most of the country is on our side. We also have an administration committed to victory.