We should have cleared outta there 15 years ago.
They are muslims -- there is no "western solution" that would work there.
With the possible exception of:
- remove all leaders from power (in all positions)
- install an American military government and martial law
- ban and burn all qurans
- incarcerate all muslim religious leaders
- forcibly convert the population to Chrisitanity.
THAT -might- have done the job.
Forcibly converting someone to Christianity is like forcibly imposing freedom.
You can't.
It is a choice that must be made, not a patch you sew on your sleeve or something to hang around your neck.
As has been said elsewhere, the two mindsets (Western Civilization and Islam) are and have been incompatible for the time that both have existed. There have been detentes imposed by mutual threat, or periods during which one or the other is ascendant, with stability only when the presence of one or the other is minuscule or nonexistent in any given area, for so long as that balance remains at that level.
The Muslim vision for "peace", the
Dar al Islam, is one of total conquest.
You won't change the 1400 year old mindset of Islam that is so heavily entrenched in that country, not in one decade, not in ten, without changing the entire culture, something which cannot be done piecemeal.
Western Civilization better have its own vision, if it is to survive.