Name:   MAJ USA RET - Subject:   The Peaceful Religion Date:   2/5/2011 12:03:03 PM

NO!  I believe that the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq should have been prosecuted as wars and, following such wars, that “nation building” with Islamic cultures is futile.  That particular culture has predisposition to reject both western democracy and western culture.  Remember, our laws and perspective are steeped in Judeo-Christian concepts and beliefs… and is therefore, in accordance with the Koran, to be shunned, resisted, and converted by conquest.

In Baghdad, I worked directly with Iraqi government officials.  During that time I saw ample evidence that a) I was (we were) being exploited and that b) democracy was a transient condition and that c) they were simply waiting for us to depart so that they could get on with their way of life… PS: leave as much money and infrastructure as possible.

Islamic culture understands ultimatum backed by withering force.  They do not respond appropriately to charity and negotiation.  They are unsubscribed to precepts of the Geneva Conventions.