Sorry, Slubgob, I disagree. It IS a war against Islam, you just haven't realized it yet. This won't end until western civilization falls or Islam is destroyed - they are not compatible. And the fault for the "clash of civilizations" is Islam's. You're hypnotized by the sheer number of people who are in thrall to this failed political system, in the same way that we in the West were in the 1970s when we looked at Communism. That was considered a permanent feature of life on Earth back then, too - only a few fanatics dreamed of actually destroying and eliminating it. And it had been around a long time, too, by 20th century standards - the best we could hope for was to slowly, incrementally modify it so we could all manage to coexist. But as it was with Communism, so it will be with Islam. Islam is a donkey-cart religion - if it had stayed in the scruffy little dirt lanes of the backwater where it originated, we would never have bothered with it. But it was the Muslims themselves who decided to take it onto the autobahn, and now its failure is plain for all to see. It can't keep up, and it can't succeed, and the driver is in a constant state of road rage because the rest of the world keeps passing it. Eventually we'll have to smash it to pieces - hopefully, as with Communism, we won't have to slaughter millions of human beings in the process.

Let's assume we are in a war with Islam. Actually, I agree - I just don't think it's with all Muslims - we're at war with a radical strain of Islam. Anyway, what tactical value would destroying a holy site have on a war with a religion? At best, we'd get some measure of emotional satisfaction at the cost of radicalizing millions of those who practice the religion.

Blowing up Mecca is a REAL bad idea. One of the Five Pillars all Muslims should accomplish for a good afterlife is to make a pilgrimage to Mecca. To threaten Mecca, therefore, is to threaten the way to salvation. All the mainstream Muslims sitting on the fence between hating the U.S. and deploring AQ's corruption of Islam would jump down firmly on AQ's side.

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