And they want to fight for Allah and a Muslim caliphate. We don’t want to be there. They will win, but we should make it extremely costly, so their adversaries in the Muslim world can defeat them when we leave.
Of course, our crucial mistake was in not bombing their part of the world to oblivion after their 9/11 attack on us. They would have understood that they had no chance against us. Our misplaced mercy was rewarded with nothing but misery, making us weaker and the jihadis stronger.
What part of the world should we have bombed after 9/11? All of the terrorists were Saudi, and BinLaden was a Saudi national.
Yep...should have nuked a couple of major cities and then said "If we are attacked again we will double the cities nuked and we will continue to do so until there is no trace of Islam left on the earth."
But that would have and will never happen. We have lost the pride of our power.