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"BillC85" wrote:

To answer Jay's question, we hit them with a resolve never before seen in
war.

Islam needs to be beaten back into the cave it slithered out of and kept
there for the next 10,000 years.

Islam is the enemy and we are in a war for civilization. Make no mistake
about that.

We're applying Western values to this fight and that is the biggest mistake
of all. We try to talk things out, we try to reason. Those tactics will
not work this time.

We have to fight them on their own terms. No quarter. No mercy. They all
die. Anything less than total commitment is capitulation.

Flame away boys and girls. It's the only way and in your heart of hearts
you know it.

No, sorry, I don't -- it's absolutely not "the only way".

We do have to fight "them" (the bad guys), and do it resolutely,
no question about it.

But we also have to educate and persuade and empower the good guys --
the decent people -- who are a majority in Islamic lands every bit as
much as in Christian or whatever lands.

Failing to do that -- focusing only on "no quarter, no mercy",
abandoning our own Western values -- will in fact accomplish exactly the
opposite, and drive the good guys in the Islamic world the other way.

Christianity at one time, some centuries ago, was nearly as bad as
fundamentalist Islam is today (and so are some of our Christian and
Jewish zealots today). The Western world has progressed a long way
beyond that; Islam and the Arab world can also.