If attempting to help bring the Muslim world into the 21st century is delusional and utopian, what do YOU think we should do?
If they act accordingly, then we can do business with them. If they don't, then we can't. It's really that simple.
And if their inherent instability presents a thread, we destroy them all.
. . . attempting to help bring the Muslim world into the 21st century . . .
This is what makes the U.S. approach truly delusional. Establishing a democracy in the Islamic world can only bring the Muslim world into the 21st century if a majority of the Muslim the world is capable of functioning in the 21st century.
Giving people with a 9th-century world view the right to elect their leaders does absolutely nothing to bring them into the 21st century. You'd think we would have learned that already, considering our own experience in places like Detroit, South Central L.A., etc.