No, I just don’t think we can win a war againt 1.2 billion people and that’s what we will be doing.
Militant Islam can only be defeated by Islam itself. That means separating the good and bad and turning them on each other.
From thine infidel lips to Allah the All-Merciful's ear. However this is the basic question, is Militant Islam, just plain Islam? The "non-militant" are the logistical support for the militant, are they not?
Using our exquisitely honed western logic, and applying the Pareto Priniciple, shouldn't the 80% "good Muslim" population which you are anxious to discover,make short work of the 20% of Muslim nut cases? Why would this not have happened already?
These chaps have been on our case for 14 centuries, now. Their efforts wax and wane depending upon their resources and our resolve. IMHO, the present century is just "our turn in the barrel." We have known since the 8th C AD that the Muslim's need a good housecleaning. From that time until now, it is the Christian West that has had to administer the occasional emetic, and none too pleasantly. I see no change in that situation because the Muslims have never developed any sort of self-regulatory apparatus, as any self-respecting Western Christian sect did ages ago.
Islam is an asylum with too many wings and no medical director.