Of course there are political and peaceful solutions. They come at the negotiating table once the enemy has taken whatever losses are sufficient to make them get reasonable.

Those peaceful solutions don't come as the result of eloquent debate or even loud arguing, they come when the other side figures out exactly how painful it is to screw with the liberties of those who will fight for liberty.

With that understanding, we also must recognize that getting the enemy to a meaningful negotiation has to be the goal of armed conflict, since absolute extermination of an idea is not exactly possible.