I think your post misses the entire thrust of Harris' argument. It [Harris' article] is a very elegant argument that forces the reader to conclude that the ONLY acceptable course we have is to fight the WOT to the point where we exterminate the terrorists or where we change the shape of the Muslim world sufficiently that terrorists can no longer operate.
The alternatives he poses--and they are alternatives--such as accepting regular and random mass murder of our citizens are not the type of alternatives that rational folks would contemplate (not to say that hard-greens and Noam Chomsky wouldn't contemplate them with relish).
Certainly he does not endorse the Eloi alternative. He illustrates that the Eloi alternative is the only alternative to fighting the war to its bitter conclusion.
Think of it as being a little like Johnathan Swift's famous treatise, "A Modest Proposal," in which Swift apparently advocated solving a bunch of problems England then had by killing Irish infants and using them as food. He wasn't really advocating killing Irish infants. He was making another point entirely by posing the slaughter as such a ridiculous and repulsive alternative to the conclusion he wanted the reader to draw.
I'm pretty sure from your post that you and the author agree on most everything about the WOT, except about styles of rhetoric.
Okay. I will try to state this clearly so that it could be understood. First, by reading the various responses to the initial post, it seems that I am not the only one that did not "get it." Second, not everyone has read Swift, Homer, et al. Which leads me to the final statement - if you want to reach the masses - the ordinary jane or joe citizen which includes myself - than you have to write to that audience. If you cannot and continue to smirk and strut above those whom you consider intellectually inferior - which Tolik and now you seem to do - than you are no better than any other elitist who believe they should rule over the common man. Just remember - there are more like me out there than there are of you!