There is a simple explanation for why Radical Islam is taking hold in the Middle East: it offers dignity to a culture that has been humiliated by Western Civilization for centuries.
That is to say, Bush's disastrous policy of beating out Radical Islam by humiliating Muslim countries even more is, well, disastrous. Now, it's not so simple to just say "Kerry stops humiliating Islam" and we win the war, because the religion of Islam does more than just not humiliate the Middle East. It also offers dignity--by submitting to Allah, any human being, no matter how poor, can achieve as much personal dignity as Abraham. The question, then, is how does a Kerry Administration offer dignity to the Middle East?