we don't have a choice on this being a religious war. We aren't the ones using religion to go to war. Nor are we the ones supporting the corrupt administration assisting them
Islam has to use Islam to fight the US and the west.
The US has a military budget higher than the next 9 countries on the list of military budgets put together.
How do you fight that? You need organised troops. Islam provides a solution for this problem. Jihad was reborn in Afghanistan, the rich and organised British against a bunch of illiterate farmers. Who won? The Afghanis, not once, but it's coming up for 4 times against bigger and better armies.
because nobody has yet had the stones to deal with them properly. It could be finished in a month.