Well, it is because human nature is central to this debate. If it were POSSIBLE, what you're saying would of course be the best way to go. But all throughout history, from Cain and Able to the brewing civil war in Iraq, there has always been a portion of the world that refuses to rise above the urges to do harm to others. Pacifism only works, as Sage and YodaIYF have been saying, if both sides agree to it, and that CERTAINLY isn't going to happen in this war. Islamofacism and democracy cannot coexist peacably in the same world, end of story.