[mountn man]

They have no hearts, and definetly no minds.

[Hardraade]

We're mired in Afghanistan because successive administrations in Washington have conflated the hayseed Taliban with al Qaeda's cosmopolitans.

Completely wrong.

You're mired because no administration - not the Busch admin, not the current one, not the Clinton administration, nor for that matter any other administration globally - can admit to what islam is.

Islam is a system of genocide that has been conducting the same war against all that is not islam for more than a milennium. It cannot be reasoned with, won over, or co-opted. It can only be eradicated, or it will eradicate humanity.

[Oldpuppymax]

“RADICAL” has nothing to do with it. Mohammed created a “religion” which taught its followers to kill anyone who stood in their way, steal all of their stuff, sell their families into slavery, practice pedophilia and bow down to the biggest psycho on the block. PERIOD! Now which hearts and minds do you want to “influence”...the killers, the thieves or the pedophiles?

[Tzimisce]

For over eight years, we've refused to do that in Afghanistan.

WTF ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? They've done nothing but tell us why they're fighting: We're not Islamic, we don't share their values, they don't like our support of Israel.

A bunch of liberals in Washington and New York aren't listening to these people any more than they're listening to the voter base in the US. But that's not our fault.

[Publius6961]

You can’t win hearts, minds of radical Islam

There.
Fixed it for you.

"We're at war with Islam.
"We're gonna be at war for the next 30 years; we're afraid to call them muslim islamic terrorists. We'll call them anything but --because we don't want to alienate muslim countries.

"That's ridiculous!

"Of course the vast majority of muslims --there are a billion, four hundred million -- are not terrorists, but there are hundreds of million who are!

They want to kill every Christian, every Jew, every Hindu who won't convert.
And we ought to put that on the table.
--- Ex-NYC Mayor Ed Koch - On Hannity, Jan 7, 2010

[M Kehoe]

Screw hearts, and minds, kick their ass'.

5.56mm

[montyspython]

There is no such thing as radical Islam, Islam form inception has be design to be inherently radical in on of itself.