We never should have done anything in Iraq without facing that reality of having to stomp out Islam in Iraq, which alas, is a fool's errand. You cannot change the enemy into a friend unless you change the worldview of the enemy, and that means war on Islam, not terrorism.
I don't see any way out of this without declaring Islam as a totalitarian and supremacist worldview and not a religion. And that it is not welcome here.
By anything, I mean nation building, democratization, all that stupid, PC, liberal condescension crap.
Good point, as was pointed out Islam is a religion as a front but in reality a political system that wishes to take over the world.
By forced submission or death of those who will not submit.
Islam declared war on the USA in the nineties and also the whole world (that started at the inception of Islam actually), since then we have been engaged in WWIII.