Is the U.S. military the solution?

Submitted by Aaron (United States), Jan 7, 2006 at 03:59

According to your analogy, Mr. Pipes, moderate Islam is not the solution.

"how strong were anti-Nazi Germans in 1943? Just as it took an outside force to destroy the German military might then, it will take one to destroy the radical Islamic one today."

No one would have claimed in 1943 that anti-Nazi Germans were the answer to the Nazis (the Allied Powers were the answer to the Nazis). Are we to understand that the use of this analogy represents a change in sentiment? Do you envision a scenario where moderate Muslims take over after the United States military destroys the Iranian, Syrian, and Saudi regimes?

-Aaron

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Daniel Pipes replies:

I argue that the West must defeat the forces of radical Islam; and that moderate Muslims must then be ready with a formulated alternative to the Islamist project.