Bush is attempting to thread the needle - fight islamofacism but not Islam. If his strategy fails, millions of people will die and most will be Muslims.
The two cannot be so easily distinguished. Islamo-facists are just the pointy end of the spear of Islam.
I agree. Bush is conducting a grand experiment. Can a softer gentler military operation help the indigenous population establish order.
If it all fails then it's back to traditional war:
Killing enough people and destroying enough cities to coerce capitulation.
"Bush is attempting to thread the needle - fight islamofacism but not Islam. If his strategy fails, millions of people will die and most will be Muslims."
A lot of innocent German and Japanese civilians died, too. But that is the price societies pay, for the adventures of their extreme elements.
So most societies these days decide to follow paths of peace and co-existence.
Push the civilized too far, and there will come a response.
The enemy has chosen to attack the most powerful. Those with bombs, planes, ships and submarines. Computers, radars, lazers, missiles, warheads.
I think they have calculated we are to docile and civilized to strike back.
Yamamota had it right.
The Muslims who are moderates are looking for a leader to guide them. It has been that way for a thousand years. The radicals know this and are taking advantage of it.
It's like the Chronicles of Riddick. You kill the leader then everyone follows you. Cut off Radical Islams head and the rest of Islam will backdown and follow that leader.
Our problem is no one wants to lead.