"The facts are that radical fundamentalist Islam IS evil, and that sooner or later the Democratic nations -- OK, the West -- is going to have to kill it."

How anthropocentric of you. Islam is not a form of government and democracy is not a religion. Democracy is not limited to the west or Christianity and theocratic and fundamentalist governments are not limited to the middle east. Let's stop perpetuating the stereotypes. Evil comes in all shapes, sizes, religions and governments. Arbitrarily condemning an entire country or region based on the actions of a portion of the people only serves to reinforce the support for the extremists who want to wage religious war.

Is fundamentalist Islam more or less evil than the fundamentalist Christians who attacked me, kicked me in the ribs and stomach, and stabbed at me with the stakes of their picket signs outside a woman's hospital -- presumably because I was young and female, and therefore MUST getting an abortion? (I was getting a pap smear. What if I had been pregnant and was coming in for a sonogram?)

Shall we label the US or the West evil because a segment of Christianity has hateful, violent views in the name of their religion?