[Migraine]

gave Islamic societies a youthful energy that contrasted markedly with the slothful senescence of Europe

...now that's a mouthful, and a pretty decent turn of a phrase!

And here's another nail on the head, and one in the coffin:
Condoleezza is right about diplomacy, as long as it contains the threat of nuking one holy city after another -- Qom, to scare the hell out of the Shia's, then Medina, leaving Mecca as a carrot to make the Muzzies of all stripes behave for another century or so. That's diplomacy that would work, as opposed to the typical appeasement that MOST idiots call diplomacy.

[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

Condoleezza is right about diplomacy, as long as it contains the threat of nuking one holy city after another

I would prefer a selective mass sterilization of the Muslim world.......let it die off gradually.