"I think it is extremely reasonable to expect that hawks, liberals, and conservatives stop creating a world which feeds, breeds, perpetuates violence."

Not only is it reasonable to expect this, but it must be demanded, and an end which must be worked towards.

Interesting essay overall, and that must have been one hell of a thesis. My only bone to pick is the essay's equation of the recent failures of political Islam with Islam, as though Islam only has the legal/political dimension and none else, such as in this statement: "sometime in the early third of the 20th century Islam was going to be OK; but something went wrong between 1935 and 2001." Islam as a whole is still going to be ok and isnt going anywhere. Although as Muslims we should recognize the craziness of the fringe lunatics and denounce it, we should not fall in the trap of defining our religion as a whole in reaction to their crimes and failures.

(p.s. I love the math equation thingies I have to solve to post.)