IMHO Islam is a very brittle religion. It is much more fixed and inflexible than Christianity. Still I really think there are enough good elements in it to build a reformation around. I do truly hope that in the end we can live in peace with Muslims but I don't have any doubts that it is going to be a very long, costly, bloody process. I also have no doubt that we could lose unless we are really strong and determined to fight for as long as it takes. And it could take generations for Muslims to reform from within, which is something only a few of them have understood that they must do. There fore it is up to us. I don't think the enemy can defeat us but we can defeat ourselves unless we are willing to bear this out as long as it takes and make enemy realize that we will never ever give up.
Anything our government does to try to get the truth out is regarded as propaganda and interfering with the free press. The government is pretty much damned if they do or damned if they don't.
I want to scream every time someone says, 'Why doesn't Bush tell us more? Why doesn't he explain it better?' Everything he says is reported to us through the media and after every press conference they come on and give us the twisted version of what he just said and that becomes what he said. The majority of people in the US do not even listen to or read what he actually says. They rely totally on the snips of his speeches that the media comments on in the newspapers and news shows afterwards.