To clarify my previous comment, we need to drop the fantasy war against “Muslim radicals” and instead a serious strategy of Western self-defense against Islam as such.
This strategy consists of:
1. Speaking the truth about Islam, both to ourselves and to the Muslims. This truth is that Islam is incompatible with the liberty and existence of Western society, and that we must defend ourselves from it by removing it from our midst.
2. Stopping virtually all Muslim immigration into the West while adopting a range of measures that will result in the steady return, both forcible and voluntary, of Muslims to their ancestral lands. Most of it will be voluntary, as they will not want to live in the West when the West ceases to welcome them and starts restricting them in all kinds of ways.
3. Tightly restricting travel of Muslims in the West.
4. Stating that we have no design to destroy Islam as such. If they want to go on practicing Islam in their own countries, we will not interfere. But we must take away from them any ability or opportunity to export Islam to non-Islamic countries.
5. Maintaining forward bases in or near the Mideast from which to launch rapid raids to disrupt or destroy Muslim regimes that threaten us. This does not involve taking over any Muslim countries or reforming them, just destroying and killing any threatening regime.
6. Development of energy resources. If we need in the short term to maintain control over Persian Gulf oil, so be it.
7. The aim is not endless confrontation, but the end of confrontaton by removing Islam from our midest and isolating it. As long as we are “involved” with Muslims, the conflict will be endless. The only way to peace is by the separation of Islam from the West, and from other non-Islamic societies as well. That separation can only happen as the result of concerted Western and non-Islamic action.
The strategy I’ve laid out here is a real strategy of Western self-preservation. An American political leadership that defended the West in the way I’ve described, instead of engaging in Bush-type futile policing and democratizing activities in Muslim countries, would win electoral majorities over the anti-American left.
