I hope and pray there is much going on behind the scenes to neutralize the influence of the more radical elements of the Shiite clergy and to promote the more moderate and pro-US ones (I have great faith in this President that that is the case).
I have a number of Iranian and Turkish friends and they are all too familiar with the radical fundamentalist brand of Islam. To a man, they say the only way to stop this threat is to destroy it. No compromise, no quarter given. Until we realize our culture is in a fight to the death, we cannot win. We must be coldblooded and ruthless in this regard, or we will pay a very high price in the not too distant future.