My proposal is to defeat our enemies and leave them to wallow in their own backwardness. At that point, we can only serve as an example to them of how a real culture/society lives in the modern age. And if they even think of attacking us or our allies we pound the crap out of them. And if they sneak out of their hellish fundamentalist existance to cause us any more problems, we pound them again.
Further, we aggressively employ collective punishment. We do not shy away from punishing entire cities or nations for failure to control their radicals. Additionally, we need to immediately stop trying to separate people from their government. People in Afghanistan were responsible for their own rotten government. People in Iraq were responsible for their own rotten government.
How is that for a start?
No more attempting to build pie-in-the-sky, fantasy "Islamic democracies". These Muslims do not share that noble goal, and unless we are prepared to sit their forever attempting to impose it, the entire plan is doomed ot failure.
I think you miss the point of the effort. It isn't democracy we wish to "impose". Its the sense that THIS life is worth living and there is no need for these little boys to be taught to blow US up to achieve heaven. Personally,I don't give a damn about any of them but I can see the value of this line of reasoning.