But Al.....I'm clueless......

Bwahahahahahahaahhh!!!!!

Bosch, you want to relentlessly champion truth, and that's good. So do I.

But the truth I see is far more complex. It comes in greytones and colours. Your truth, in black and white, gets some parts right and some parts wrong. When I talk about good propaganda being subtly laid out, with a complex arrangement of arguments and counter arguments, I'm not advocating deception, but effective rhetoric.  I'm not advocating constructing an enemy out of straw. It is only by defeating the best arguments of our opponents that we truly win.

To me, the simple truth you champion gives us an enemy made of straw. Somewhere in there is the real enemy, but it's a sharp poisonous needle in the haystack.

You don't defeat an ideology or religion just by attacking it from the outside. If they claim to be moral, you must show that there are better ways to be moral. If they claim to be more just, you must show them better justice. If they claim to serve the people best you must show them how the people are best served. If they claim that you hate them, you must show them that in reality your enemy is the same.

A lot of people in the middle east are duped into thinking that America and the West are the root cause of their problems. When in reality it is (in part) the fat, greedy princes that rule these countries and suck all the wealth out for their own decadence. Look at Osama in Saudi Arabia. The vast royal family lives in opulence while they treat their people like shit. Osama Bin Laden and his family are among the fat cats that are the real enemies of the Saudi people. But the US troops get all the blame. Partly because they're infidels in the Holy Land, but also partly because they're supporting a corrupt government in order to secure the oil supply and other strategic interests in the Middle East.  

And democracy can work in Islamic countries, but it has to have a solid wall between church and state just like in Turkey. (And I know, that's under heavy attack at the moment.)  Just like Christian countries should have a more rigorously defended separation between religion and state.

But on first glance, your Pigman plays into the worst fears and prejudices of moslems about the west being out on another crusade.  It is, to my view, counterproductive.  It's like trying to talk a crowd out of a frenzy while some guy jumps up and down behind you shouting "we're gonna kick your ass. We're gonna moiderize you!". 

And democracy can work in Islamic countries, but it has to have a solid wall between church and state just like in Turkey.

In an Islamic country there is no solid wall between church and state. That is an impossibility.

Good propaganda is about boling the frog slowly.

http://www.snopes.com/critters/wild/frogboil.asp

That doesn't really answer my question.  Are you advocating that the United States of America makes it their mission to put an end to the religion of Islam worldwide, violently if necessary?

What is it you'd like your government to do in order to end those who started this war?  (Please, if you should address my question, it is not necessary to provide a lecture on the nature of Islam or why your opinions or justified.  I think I've got a handle on your thoughts on those topics.  I'm far from the smartest guy in the room, so make it easy on me.  I'd just like a clear, straight-to-the-point answer, without all the distracting tangents.)