At the moment the West (mainly America) is bieng very proactive. Going here, isolating countries, genrally throwing their weight around. These other countries have a wonderful get out that everything that is wrong with their country and the world is due to the USA.

Afghanistan would work, if not for the West. Iraq woulcd be a peaceful place, if not for the West.

The West should basically do nothing except feed free information into these black holes of religious blinkeredness (such as iran, Pakistan and the Midwest). No, we don't go in guns blazing to help them when they get locked up for wearing hotpants. We show them that here it doesn't happen.

Get the people themselves to want change. Isolate the extremists. Stop letting them say everything is the fault of the west, and making Muslims feel that they are letting their religion down by siding with us.

Most of the situations would collapse into infighting without the Satanic Americans around. So we should be trying to help this to happen.

Basically, one aspect of how the Cold War was won. Not with guns, but by making the people themselves sick of their leaders. Currently we are doing the opposite.