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What you are saying is fine and dandy, however what would you do? How would you handle the Al Qaeda/terrorism problem?
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There really one way to fight terrorism:
See that the terrorists don't get supported by the people in their country.
Therefore the goal should be to convince Muslims in the middle East that the western world is good and the Al Quaeda is bad.
When you frame everything as a war between Christians and Muslims it's clear which side the average Muslim that lives in a country in the middle East will take.
That makes it very harmful to have someone like Palin in a high office when there are videos where Palin says that the US soliders carry out Gods plan in Iraq/Afghanistan.
Framing it as a crusade is the worst possible way to deal with the problem (Overseas Contingence Operations > Great War on Terror).
After John Boyd who happens one of the most important American thinkers about the theory of war in the last century,
every war gets won or lost on the moral plane, because it determines the amount of support that your enemy gets.
Moral leadership is very important in a conflict like this.