My point was that as an agnostic objectivist, I agree. I am not a Randian but rather an objectivist. But Randians in no accurate way could be considered religious. This again demonstrates your trouble distinguishing between different concepts and words.

Read more carefully please. As I said, it was after 9.11 that I read the quran and discovered that these people really do represent islam correctly, these terrorists, true believers. This changes everything, for anyone with any sense.

We defeated the ideologies behind hitler and Japan, not just the nation-states. The same is necessary here. I would declare victory based on numerous different but acceptable results. But, the most likely is simply a surrender of the islamic goals of enforcing their patheticly stupid and totally evil ideology on the West, or at least America. The war is going to get much, much bigger before this happens. This WWIII has barely started in fact.

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Qur'an:8:39 Fight them until all opposition ends and all submit to Allah.
Qur'an:8:67 It is not fitting for any prophet to have prisoners until he has made a great slaughter in the land.
Qur'an 8:12 I will terrorize the unbelievers...Strike off their heads and cut off each of their fingers and toes.
Qur'an 9:5 Fight and kill the disbelievers wherever you find them, take them captive, torture them, and lie in wait and ambush them using every stratagem of war.