If anyone thinks we can cleanse the world of Islam, I'm listening. America is already war weary and we can't even seem to defeat ISIS. The Taliban are ready to take back Afghanistan in spite of the longest war we have ever fought.
I think we can if we WANT to,but other than the guys doing the fighting,nobody seems interested in winning. They seem to be more interested in keeping the war going to keep the unemployment levels down. The economy seems to have been going in the tank for a long time now,and was is,always has been,and always will be good for the economy. It gives jobs to the unemployed that are wiling to wear uniforms,it keeps highly paid union jobs in the defense industries from disappearing,and it keeps the politicians in districts with defense industries happy and in office from the pork they bring in.
Plus war gives the professional political class a call for the voters to rally around. After all,who doesn't want to support our troops (and their leaders) during time of war?
I think an awful lot of people would be surprised if they ever started to look around to see just how intertwined all this really is.
I have said it before and chances are I will be saying it with my last breath,"There is no excuse for the way insurgent wars like the one against Islam and Islam against the west are being ran. You do NOT win wars by killing privates,and you most especially will NOT win any war by killing ignorant religious drones that think getting killed while fighting against their religious enemy is their guarantee of the "good life with all the sex they want with women too inexperienced with sex to realize how incompetent they are."
If you want to win insurgency wars in the 21st Century you MUST take out the leadership and the financiers that provide the money to keep the raghead troops fed,watered,clothed,armed,and with a little money to send home for their families. Dry up the money and the Jihadists and the Jihad disappear.
If you want to dry up the money forever,you do so by tracking down and killing the individuals that are behind it,and then seize ALL their money from their bank accounts and from any other source of income they have. Yes,this means leaving their families in poverty. So what? Maybe their families NEED to be worrying about being forced to live a life of poverty in order to slap any future Jihadists into line and prevent them from getting involved? This is war,not badminton. The leaders of the Jihad are NOT rational people. They are still living in medieval times.and we need to get medieval with their asses.
If we don't,they will win. Period. They breed like rats and care nothing about their children's futures. They will win simply by outnumbering us and bankrupting us unless we are willing to drop our 20th century philosophy of "fighting them to a draw and making them quit",and go back to the medieval warfare mode of fighting them to destroy them as a people and a culture. If we are not willing to do that,we MUST seal off their borders and stop all goods going into or out of those countries,and this includes refugees. Doing this will eventually cause civil wars within their own countries,and their own people will kill all the leadership classes we don't have the stones to kill.
I have no idea what sort of culture would replace Islam in those areas,but I am fairly confident it would be a hungry one in desperate need of food and medical care. THOSE people we can deal with in a humane manner because they will understand it was Islam and themselves that were the root of their problem.