Islam fundamentalism is the driving force behind every major conflict in the Middle East — and, by one calculation, it is behind about half of the world's armed conflicts, from Algeria to the Philippines. The evils of dogmatism and religious tyranny are endemic to Islamic culture — and our evasion of this fact is making a mockery of the War on Terrorism.
If we want to win this war, we must begin by recognizing that this is Islamic fundamentalism's war against the "infidel" secularism of the West. Our goal in this war should be to beat down, to curtail, to drive out Islamic fundamentalism — not to replace it with our own religion, but to force Islam, like the religions of the civilized world, to lay down its arms and accept the freedom of a secular society.
Bob C