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That's what also needs t be changed...

McGratification isn't going to work with something like a several thousand year old religion. It may take a thousand years to completely reform Islam into a palatable spiritual outlet for its adherents. It took Christianity at least half a millennia to undo what it had evolved into.

Creating political will to endure suffering and participate in a struggle that ensures death to your side is not an easy sell anymore.

In WWI it was relatively easy:

http://www.firstworldwar.com/posters/images/pp_us_71.jpg


But let's not kid ourselves, there were just as many anti-war folks opposing our efforts in WWI and WWII as there are folks opposing our efforts in Iraq today - they just didn't have anywhere near the soapbox.

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