[Honcho]

If only we had worked on understanding the Germans and the Japanese, we could have avoided WWII!

You miss the point here and here is the main point to be gotten from this: The more open Muslim societies are, the less anti-American they tend to be. Lebanon and Turkey, two of the freest countries in the Muslim world, had the highest number of respondents who viewed the United States favorably...


We can conclude from this that the answer to the Muslim problem is FREEDOM!!!!! Not Socialism, not pulling back, not placation but good old fashioned freedom. It's what I've been saying all along: Free the Muslim World from the tyrants who rule it and there will be peace there, and abroad.

[schu]

I understand, their freedom is the answer for them to leave us alone.

But, freedom is based upon views of people and your culture that are completely foreign to Islam, the individual, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, etc. Islam prevents these folks from being free.

If they are to be free, they must cast off the shackles of Islam. I do not believe they have the strength to cast away these Islamic beliefs internally; it must be an external force that instigates this change. Think of the cost and effort to “reset” their culture to achieve this goal.

It seems that it once again falls on America to get this done, but since we don’t even know what our culture is, how do we expect to show them the way?