"The clash we are witnessing around the world is not a clash of religions or a clash of civilizations," Dr. Sultan said. "It is a clash between two opposites, between two eras. It is a clash between a mentality that belongs to the Middle Ages and another mentality that belongs to the 21st century. It is a clash between civilization and backwardness, between the civilized and the primitive, between barbarity and rationality."
The above quote is grossly mistaken, but needs to be well understood by those studying the GWOT. The above quote probably very well manifests the western, modern, worldly perspective of the conflict as perceived through soulish eyes.
The Islamic perspective is also soulish, but has been tainted by a spiritual element. The spiritual domain is very real. This is lost on many western secular observers. It is not lost upon those fomenting the GWOT who are Wahabiists or militant Muslim.
On the contrary, becoming more rational, more aloof, more adament in defending worldly perspectives from modern perspectives merely aggravates the conflict further.
The real solution is not ignoring the spiritual, but encouraging those who seek God to find Him through His method of coming to Him.
The militant Muslims are essentially a backsliden morally degenerate believer, except that many may have never had a saving faith in God through faith in Christ, and accordingly , worse than a backsliden Christian, are open souls for demonic possession.
The really scary part of all of this is that demons aren't always up front in their machinations. If faced with a militant Muslim who has become demon possessed, an incredible amount of deception with an ulterior motive to destroy anything holy, righteous or just, may be in action, never discernible but to those who remain spiritually discerning and holy.
This is why in this GWOT, we must pray for our military and our leaders that they remain vigilent. For the Christian, this means being spiritually vigilent as well as physically alert.
Probably the best support Americans can give the fighting man overseas is to witness to other Americans and clean up the spiritual quagmire we wallow in on the homefront. God can handle the rest.