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Yes we have slaughtered jihadists. We have tried to pick which Moslems run the Caliphate we are trying to engender. Moslems, including our own Chief Mussulman don't worry about killing Moslems. Moslems kill each other more than they kill infidels, all in the name Islamic Purity and Orthodoxy. It has been thus since the death of Mahomet himself. To promote the worldwide Caliphate it is necessary to intervene in the internecine wars of the Sunnis and the Shiites and their offshoots to pick the winners. All our warfare that is putatively against Jihadists, at least since Bush II is of that nature with the goal of weakening America even as it strives to strengthen the Jihad. If we were serious about fighting Islamic Jihad Bush I or Bush II would have essentially erased Iraq as any sort of effective polity and would have taken the oil without any sort of compensation. That oil and the money we pay for it, in Iraq and Iran and Arabia etc is what pays for Jihad and we are the greatest suppliers of that support money, far greater than all of Russia's contribution.

Moslem societies are quiescent when they are poor from top to bottom. Islamic culture is such that the common people produce very little. Any surplus they produce i.e. more than enough to barely feed and house them, will be taken by the sultan or emir or whatever the head Moslem is called. Any resources in excess of that required to keep a tiny ruling class in opulence and the rest of the society in bare subsistence mode must go for Jihad. It's in the Book. It is central to the religion of Islam.

We turn over huge resources to the Moslems. They have huge amounts of resources then to support Jihad. They wage Jihad. To bring hiatus to the Islamic war requires that the source of funds be cut off and that the saracen forces suffer a defeat so total and destructive that all Moslems understand that Allah does not will for Islam to triumph in the current generation. The Bushes could have accomplished that. They did not even try. Lepanto and the follow-on naval victories of the Christian forces accomplished that. Vienna did that. It is, however, only a hiatus. Another generation will garner resources by conquest or by selling oil and Jihad will resume. The Islamic War will continue until everyone alive is Moslem or until no one is.