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Nobody in their right mind believes that nukes will ever be used against islam to wipe it out, so getting all hot and bothered is a waste of time.

A lot of people are not in their right mind. That's what this whole thread is about.

A lot of people have time to waste.

I often get frustrated with the whole Religion of Peace trope. I believe that we will have to confront the tenants of the religion at some point. There was a time when Christianity was spread by the sword. The Enlightenment mostly put a stop to that but Islam has not modernized. Islamic doctrine is incompatible with our ideas of freedom of religion. There are three options - 1. Islam will conquer, 2. Islam will change (become more tolerant), 3. Islam will be destroyed. I hope for #2, but #3 may be required. ( I won't live to see #1, I'd rather die fighting.) #3 would mean the shedding of huge amounts of innocent blood so it should not be our first choice.

In war we must make choices based on the reality on the ground and not just ideological purity. In WWII we were allied with Stalin to defeat Hitler. We fought against the Italians for the first part of the war and with some of them against the Nazis later on. We do not want to start a war with all of Islam, a billion people and dozens of countries at the same time. So we have to use some diplomatic language and create some alliances of convenience. That is how things work when you live in a world of real limitation of force, money and manpower.