LOL! Just how is that you address the root cause in a short five years. We cannot fix this. We can only kill it.
Considering that the world has collectively ignored this festering crap hole for decades, simply because of the cost, has allowed it to develop into the proverbial snake that is, and has been striking at everything it can reach since the 70s...
The root cause is a people, a religion and a culture that is designed to be what it is............A warring religious based society that believes it has a destiny to rule the entire world.
It is a danger to the rest of the planet, a festering cancer, a predicable disease, and a candidate for reeducation or genocide by Nuclear Antibiotics.....(Which is their choice, not ours)
Since they do not fear death, then the eventual graduation to a global search and destroy mission is a foregone conclusion in my humble opinion. So how do you concieve of killing over a Billion people? I don't have a clue....
We are not there yet, but we will be soon enough. It is only a matter of time and there is no point in forcing the issue, as it must mature in it's own time.
Bush understands this, and is engaging them as fully as he can with little public support, while at the same time, hoping that it will not become the eventual "kill or be killed" mission that I have predicted here.
He has done all that he can in this time frame, and the rest will come after they hit us again, and perhaps again and again before the greatest nation that has ever been will stop pretending that we don't have a problem and finally define it for what it really is.
The Last Crusade.......
LOL! Just how is that you address the root cause in a short five years. We cannot fix this. We can only kill it.
Well, there is that. If we're not in the mood for nuclear genocide, there's always plan B.
Oil money is what fuels Islamic extremism, both in the spread of Wahabbism and in the funding of terrorism. So long as oil keeps the Middle East rich, there will be terrorism.
The way to defeat that is to get the industrialized and developing powers off of oil and onto some alternative fuel. If we had launched an alternative fuel Manhattan project right after 9/11, and spent our money on that, we'd be close to the day when we could collapse the economy of the Middle East, and send Islam and Islamic extremism back into the third world shadows for good.
The end of oil will be more devastating to Islam than nuclear weapons. If we really wanted to hurt them, and to end this war, we'd hit them in the supply lines. A bankrupt, barbaric culture from a desert wasteland is no threat to Western civilization. Oil is our Achilles heel, but it's also theirs. The sooner we get ourselves unhooked from it, the sooner we can banish their medieval vision back to the deserts.