Wars of annihilation should only be fought when an opponent will never ever stop trying to kill you, when you can never come to terms.
Suppose hypothetically that you represent western civilization. One day, you can’t take it anymore. So You put your weapons down, and say “I’m done, no more blood.” Islam would run you down and gut you alive. You I expect would never do that, but that is what the governments of western civilization are letting happen. One of these days, we’re going to wake up to the news that one or several major cities have been nuked and a terrorist organization is taking credit. It won’t matter who is in charge then, or the state of our foreign policy. The only reaction to it, I expect we won’t take, should be to utterly destroy islam and remove it from the face of the earth. I will never advocate genocide, but in these circumstances I feel it would be an appropriate response. I could never feel like it was right, but these people cheer in their streets when 3,000 innocent civilians are killed (yes, their women and children). They are all for killing us all. It’s a shame, but their actions should be met with overwhelming, utter, annihilation.
Islam has never stopped, not once, not ever in the history of Islam have they stopped trying to kill. The crusaders got it. We won’t, not until we see it firsthand.
I also would like to point out that the phrase you used. “Radical Islam”, is bull. There is no radical islam, ISLAM IS RADICAL, it is a symptom of the holy texts they believe in, a symptom of the environment they live in, and a symptom of misplaced anger and hate for made up wrongdoings.
Their way of life, and sharia law are flawed deeply into the fabric of their culture and society. It has not changed much for islam in 5,000 ycears. We ould be an interstellar space faring civilization and islam would still be there, the same as it was yesterday, the same as it is today.
Then you see it as I do. This choice will at some point be made for us. We’ll have to decide whether to surrender to Islam or to preserve our culture, our civilization, complete with its faults and unfairnesses, or surrender. That is the outcome the other side envisions and as they acquire more and more deadly weaponry, they will move to fulfill that vision. They do not mind using cel phones, they do not mind using Twitter, they do not mind using airplanes, and they do not and will not mind using whatever technology the evil West has brought into being. At some point, all the sophisticated nuances will disappear and pure existentialism , the pure fact of existence will be the choice du jour. We’ll find that out either before or after a few cities are laid to waste with primitive nuclear weapons smuggled into this country, and that will be that.