[Nathan Zachary]

Do you not understand THEIR position?

Before the ink dried at the end of ww1 50 million Christians were slaughtered by the Turks and others, and that was just the beginning.

You don't seem to be able to grasp the size of the war were are heading into.

Think BILLIONS.

[pollyannaish]

Yes I understand their position. Kill or convert.

The question I have is do we want to emulate that, or would it not be better to perhaps fight this in another way?

I fail to see how us adopting a kill or convert policy on our side in any way moves us out of this war in the long run. It simply escalates it and we will soon be living like the Israelis and Palestinians engaged in a never-ending nothing is good enough hell. Personally, I don't want that and I would bet most people around the world don't either. Kill or convert is NOT a good strategy. It is an exceptionally weak strategy.

That is not to say we can negotiate with them, because we can not. Again the Israeli/Palestinian thing proves that.

We must fight to win, but that isn't always done through superior firepower, and failure to understand that can get us into a world of trouble. We need superior firepower...and the backbone and diplomacy and covert operations that are the envy of the world.

Both sides here are trying to break down the opposing team. THEY are trying to play victim and use the American Press and Congressional powers to cause us to give up completely. WE are trying to support and enhance the credibility and power of moderating forces within Islam to break down the hold of extremists within their religion.

This is a war that reaches far beyond simply nuking everyone who doesn't believe the way I do. It is going to be won or lost on philosophy in the end...just like every other war in the history of mankind.