[mikeIII]

Well, you're missing the point, but your comment clearly supports my point!

What "large enough army" did you have in mind to convert the ME to Christianity and what would you have them do? What size of an army and methods were needed in bringing down communism in the Soviet Union? Or would be needed to achieve the same in China over, say, the next 50 years? The point is, you don't need these "large armies" to convert communists. The peoples of these countries are not communists by choice.

So. You can have a non-communist China in short order, and without an army and a brigade high-priests of any kind - simply give them the choice!

[Stavka2]

No, I didn't miss the point of this piece. I also didn't miss the point that these humanists have never figured out human nature. By their point, Islam should have collapsed 100 years ago,when all Islamic lands were under control (with the exception of Turkey...and it had just been beaten by Christian rebels) of Christians who had much higher technologies and standards of living. Did it? No. Humanists have always misconstrued human nature. The uneducated masses do not have to follow the intelligentsia...as the communists found out. They can only be changed, radically, by force.

As for the Islamics, one must fight his enemy on even footing. As such, convert in the old ways, whole communities at once, while banning and destroying the images of their islamic faith....harsh? Yes. But who will remember in 2 or 3 generations? Does the West still crave it's pagan roots that were pulled out the same way? No.