I'm not nearly so optimistic that the current fight isn't at base about religion. And it may get much uglier. But true or not, let's frame the rhetoric such that its beyond doubt that the bin Ladenists are the source of the violence and America is acting solely out of self-defence motivations. The clearer the choice, the easier, I hope, it will make it for fence sitters to side with us.
I'm not nearly so optimistic that the current fight isn't at base about religion.
The problem is it is and isn't war a war on a religon.
It is in that those we are fighting are members of one religon Islam.
And it isn't in that those we are fighting in one way represent anything like the majority of Muslims in the world.