With the Quran setting the principles for forcible conversion of all non-Muslims to Islam and using coercion of treating non-Muslims like 2nd class beings, the base is prepared for the Madaressahs (Islamic theological-terrorism schools) to inculcate these Quranic principles into the minds of every growing generation of Muslims to have this attitude of paranoid coercion. Further at every prayer (Ibadat/Namaz), the Muslim priest (Maulavi) preaches the practice of terror to his audience. This is how a terrorist is born. So the Quran, and what is preached in the Madaressahs and the Mosques are the real origin of terrorism. And until the world over, we do not eradicate these, the problem of terrorism will not end.

All the billion and half of those who take their inspiration from the Quran have the same murderous instinct. The difference is that in some the opportunity does not present itself to execute their instinct. The instinct does not differ. And in some discretion is the better part of valor, but there to the instinct is same. As the case is so hopeless, the only hope of breaking this circle of hate is by delivering a message in kind to all the billion and a half Muslims that would disabuse them of any hope for victory over us with their method of murder and mayhem. We need to be prepared for this as soon there will come a point when widespread Muslim terror attacks against the U.S. will no longer allow military actions as we have taken in Iraq and Afghanistan and will call for a re-appraisal of our military strategy. A re-appraisal as happened during World War 2 when the allies in 1939 began by bombarding Germany with pamphlets asking the Germans to make peace, to the bombing of Dresden to rubble in 1945. It took six years during the last World War to bring about this change. How long will it take now? And in what circumstances now do we reach that point? Here's the dilemma: to have any hope of victory over the Jihadis, we must use a terrible, overwhelming, and insidious force; yet, in using that force we risk losing popular support for the war effort.

Victory requires a devastation so complete as to disabuse the enemy of any and all notions of pride (in this case Arab and Muslim pride) and the futility of resisting us. This kind of psychological change is forced in the enemy only by visiting a defeat on him that is so horrendous and complete that his very existence is dependent upon your will. Think of the bombing of Tokyo, and the fire- storms that followed in 1945. Think of Dresden. It is said that bombs fell in Dresden until the only effect was to bounce the rubble. Think of Hiroshima (horrendous as it seems, but can we prevent it from coming to that sometime in this war?).

If you are familiar with U.S. history, consider the way we completely drove out the last Briton (colonialist) from the newly independent United States in 1776, consider the sacking of Atlanta during our Civil War, and the psychological impact on Southerners of Sherman's March to the Sea. Unfortunately, these are the necessary atrocities of a successful military campaign. This is what the history of war teaches: Without a complete and total annihilation of the enemy, he will never come to realize the folly of his ways... and he will rise to fight us again. The point is when and under what circumstances will we be provoked to carry this war to a decisively successful conclusion. Last time it was Pearl Harbor, this time if it has not been 9/11, then will it be a nuke or dirty nuke attack on the West or the US mainland? Or can better sense prevail in our Administration before that happens? Penning this article is one attempt towards that objective.

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Pakistan's President Musharraf has promised to rid his unhappy land of Al-Qaeda ever since 9/11 and before; however, for a complex of reasons he has been able to do little or nothing to affect this. The jihad is epidemic in Pakistan. Jihad training camps dot the landscape – including those that investigators charge that Lodi, California resident Hamid Hayat attended in 2000, 2003, and 2004. Hayat allegedly planned to bring the jihad violence he learned there back to the United States. An Afghan intelligence officer remarked: "We know where a lot of these training camps are. We have their names. And we've given the Pakistanis all the information we have. We're waiting for Pakistan to show the willingness to fight."

He may be in for a long wait. The training camps are not there by accident: Pakistani madrasas are veritable "universities of jihad." At least two of the July 7 London bombers attended such madrasas. Speakers at the UN Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights recently described them as "nurseries of death and destruction." Even textbooks approved by Musharraf himself foster notions about the necessity of Muslims to fight so that Islamic law will reign supreme. One textbook declares: "At present, jihad is continuing in different parts of the world. Numerous mujahedin [holy warriors] of Islam are involved in defending their religion, and independence, and to help their oppressed brothers across the world." Democracy?

It isn't on the program: "When God's people are forced to become slaves of man-made laws, they are hindered from practicing the religion of their God. When all the legal ways in this regard are closed, then power should be used to eliminate the evil. If Muslims are being oppressed, then jihad is necessary to free them from this cruel oppression." Osama's sentiments exactly. Musharraf recently ordered foreign students out of Pakistani madrasas, but it is the Pakistani students who are the problem.

Pakistani mosques are likewise epicenters of Islamic intransigence and exhortations to violence. After the July 7 bombings, authorities in Pakistan arrested 56 imams on charges of making "provocative speeches" during their Friday sermons; ten others were arrested for selling audiotapes of those sermons. The nation's political system, meanwhile, is heavily influenced by the notion that Islamic law must reign supreme in any legitimate state – a principle that forms the cornerstone of bin Laden's agenda. Osama himself, of course, has most likely found shelter (and may continue to do so) in the wild Pakistani highlands. That shelter, of course, is offered and protected by rank-and-file Pakistanis who share the terrorist mastermind's outlook on life.

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