If you invade and destroy a Islamic country with a secular government for no good any reason,
fixed.
no, really, the reason matters very little. all that matters is the decimation of the country at the hands of an occupying force, a broken economy and education system, and general desperation on the part of the people.
war begets terrorism.
What are pissed off Muslims vulnerable to?
Islamic extremist recruiting.
it's been well known in the middle east for quite some time. you can't kill the leaders of terrorist groups, because these groups are like hydra. cut of the head, two more grow back. killing just turns terrorists into martyrs -- recruitment tools. and it just makes the situation look worse, like we're the agressors. especially since many of these groups are actually the closest thing some of these places have to infrastructure. attacking them it sort of like bombing elementary schools and hospitals, in the eyes of the locals. it just makes the resistence stronger.
and you cannot win a war against a local resistence. they know they terrain, and they will fight more desperately.
anyways. it'd be nice to have a chief executive in office that actually understood basic military strategy... though i'm not sure that would happen.