“At some point we need to take long view and align ourselves with good and against evil. “
That’s already the case. Saudi Arabia’s rulers being the good, and the country’s troglodyte population being the evil. While in theory we could nuke them till they glow, no president will. Not unless he wants to spend the rest of his life in prison and have his property confiscated as reparations. There are a billion other Muslims who think just like them. We’re not gonna kill them all.