In my estimation war is ultimately about ideas. Islamofascism has an idea of how the world should be. Their ideas are utterly and totally wrong.
One of their important means of winning in the current war is to use Western epistemic systems against itself. The West-- except for substantial components of the US-- has anti-semitic logics. Islamo fascists seek to utilize this logic to foist their own victimology. This means the Hezbollah terrorists are the "victims" and Israeli Jews are the aggressors.
Without the underlying logic of anti semitism, the Islamo fascists would be in a much weaker rhetorical position.
Consequently, I no longer care what individual intentions are about criticism of Israel. All criticism which aims to reduce Israeli assertiveness (note you could criticize Israel for being too soft) is a veiled invitation to annihilate Jews.
If you have never carefully studies MEMRI.ORG to understand the extensive and powerful nature of anti-semitism, I urge you to do so.
When you have David Duke being invited to Damascus to give speeches against war, it is time to clue in on what anti-Israel statements really mean.
I am done pretending.
OK, finally we're in total agreement. It is a war of ideas. And yes, Islamofascism ideas are utterly and totally wrong. So far, so good. Here's where we differ - I don't want it seen as a war between religions. It has to be a war between enlightened modern, rule of law, people of free societies Vs forces of ignorance and totalitarian darkness. Why? Because it's not about religion. Iran's President meets and greets Chevez - a Catholic - a totalitarian - but a Catholic totalitarian. Iran's President works with North Korea - another dark Totalitarian force, but not Muslim. Their side knows it's not about religion - and our side needs to "get" that.
The reason we're standing with Israel is that they're a modern, enlightened, rule of law, free society. That protects Israel and it protects our interest in protecting Israel. It also allows a bid to be made to the people of Iran and North Korea who don't stand with their nutty leaders. If it's a war of religions, we will lose too many who want to live in a free, modern, rule of law society -- the very people who might be able to help us down the road. This war is not going to be as easy as some people think - we need every advantage....