Iraq is today a spectacle of blood and agony. Daily, insurgents and sectarian militias slaughter men, women and children. Those piles of corpses are defeating the US. Because she entered Iraq as a liberator, not as a conqueror. She came to succor and heal. She was to bring a new and brighter day. Instead she has brought darkness lit by lightning. 

 

The enemy has discovered that he does not have to kill American soldiers to defeat the US military. He needs simply to continue killing the innocent. America cannot keep her footing on earth made slippery by so much blood. A band aid (the Surge) cannot be relied on to permanently stop the hemorrhage.

 

We have invested billions in deadly weapons, but nothing in our arsenal  can stop  terrorists who  welcome rather than fear death.

 

                  The Answer: Islam/Jews

 

The Arab world, no less than the US, has passionately held ideals and convictions. Those bind and compel Muslims. They infuse a faith that is central to the Middle East. There nothing is mightier.
 
Even only a small part of that power, harnessed to America's wagon, could roll over the insurgency, and  flatten terrorism itself. 

Yes, Islam is the path. The insurgents and the sectarian militias can be disciplined by their own Muslim passions. 

The Jews are the key.  Israel and the blind hate it evokes is not the problem but the solution.
 
Consider an NGO operating a $10+ billion Anti-Terror Fund. This fund’s M.O. would be: awards of a million dollars and more per killing. On a day when 48 people die violently in Iraq, a check for $48 million is cut. A toll of 116 deaths produces a check for $116 million.
 
This money would go to Israel !
 
The idea is not to compensate the victims but to exasperate the perpetrators. The higher the day's slaughter of Muslims the bigger that day's bonanza to the Jews. The nightly news from CNN, Al Jazeera, etc., would show the jubilation in Israel as kibbutzim, West Bank settlements, entire neighborhoods celebrate the day's bloodshed.
 
The message to suicide bombers, snipers, IED preparers, torturers and sectarian killers would be: you are benefiting the Jews, you are Israeli collaborators.

 

Islamists and insurgents know, Paradise is closed to those who serve the enemies of God. They would be devestated and paralyzed. 
 
Before long they would realize that the West has more money than Islamists have suicide bombers. Writing checks is easy, the work of mass murder is hard. And it can bear bitter fruit.
 
That is the kernel. We are powerless to stop jihadists set on killing and unafraid of dying. We cannot control their actions. But  the consequences of their actions can be controlled. The pestilence can be check-mated.