Oh, yes, that’s a brilliant idea gogogodzilla. Instead of attacking Islamic militants, we should attack their women and children and we should try to destroy the food supply for the Middle East. We should pillage, rape, and burn throughout the entire region. I’m sure that will work magnificently. And then we can tell the ragged, starving survivors in the area how morally superior our system is than theirs. I’m sure they will be eager to embrace democracy after that.
Fact of the matter is that it worked in the past... and since human nature hasn’t changed one wit since then, it’ll work now.
Whether that gets your panties in a wad doesn’t change that fact.
(Or in other words, terrorists can’t be very good terrorists if they’re too busy being terrorized.)