Thank you.
I, for one, appreciate this post. There are some ways that the WOT can possibly play out:
1) We kill Muslims that buy into the "external jihad" in perpetuity, eventually becomng too similar to the most repressive governments you would like to name, while having generations of young men and women have "raghead capping" as a rite of passage. Not good.
2) We kill Mulsims by the hundreds of millions, going so far as turning most of the world between the west African coast and southern Phillipines Islands into smoking, radioactive glass and having death camps for the remainder of muslims living elsewhere. I really don't want my children or grandchildren living in a country where genocide is a national policy.
3) An alternative social system for the muslims. One element involves Islam has is own reformation, with the jihadis and islamofascists marginalized. It will also require changes within the muslim world in terms of education, empowering women, political and economic systems. Young muslim men need a future. People with a future don't blow themselves up, unless their deepest held beliefs tell them that is the greatest aspiration they have. Let them fight for their own future (like in Iraq) and relegate the "72 Virgin" crowd to the freakshow tent within the muslim world.
I would like to see our country assist the liberal muslims reform their theology from within, rather than needing to resort to a perpetual war or mass murder on a scale that would make Hitler, Stalin, and Mao look like clumsy amateurs.
Do take note, though -- Any of the alternatives listed above are prefferable to the French option - Surrender or defeat. I'll take ANY off of that list before accepting dhimmitude.