I'm so glad the U.S.A. established the concept of "jihadd" ...here I was thinking it was an Islamic invention.
I agree radical Islam is the problem. But it's been a problem since the Crusades of the middle-ages. The solution is to contain the threat.
We disagree on the course of action. I simply do not believe that replacing one propaganda system with another is a viable solution.
Chrisitanity is superior to Islam for many reasons, aside from the completeness of it's truths. One reason is that throughout the history of Christianity there has been an active dialog and sincere questioning of what is true and what is not. Islam has no such history. There is no serious debate about what is truthful and what is not. Clerics (imperfect men) determine what the populace will believe. Independent thought regarding a persons relationship to his Almighty Creator is forbidden. Good intentions will not change that.
Only through a comitted and just use of reasonable force can we hope to open-up Islam to the idea that we can become closer to God by questioning those dictates that keep us in servitude to a corrupt philosophy.
Let me put it this way: I am closer to the Holy Trinity today, because of the efforts of some great thinkers who dared to question the written word... and in so doing discovered undenialble truths. (I'm thinking of the "Great-Debates" of past ages where clerics gathered to examine the teachings of Scripture).
No, the secret to distroying Islam is to expose it to the Lamp of God and allow free-thinking men (and women) the chance to fully examine it's total decay. We only have the option of using tools that are effective to get their attention.
P.S. The bet explanation can be found in the words to "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" ...(which I can't seem to stop humming). LOL!