This is not a question for us to answer, it is a question for the Muslims to answer.
The question for us to answer is: are we willing to submit, in any way, to Islam? The answer to that question is not no, it is HELL NO!
The other question for us to answer is do we have the long term political/social will to fight?
Exactly. I believe two things: (1) Islam is incompatible with liberty, and (2) liberty cannot be imposed on those who have other commitments.
But warplanners and warfighters MUST answer the question, if only provisionally, because the wars they plan and fight are contingent on the answer.
The most important question, IMO, is WHY do our warplanners and warfighters believe Islam is reformable and capable of peaceful coexistence with civilization?
Do they believe it because it is true (or they think it true), or do they believe it because the only war they are prepared to fight presupposes it to be true?
Moreover, the disturbing answer is CLEARLY found in the Koran.
Cannoneer No. 4 is doing his/her best to convince us Islam, aka the "Religion of Peace," (ahem, parroting that other famous statesman) actually IS, while morphing all Muslims into political martyrs and and doe-eyed innocents EVER SINCE THE PORT UAE DEAL WAS SQUELCHED.
Barf.
Excellent point.