Only a very small number of the world's population are terrorists, but an astonishingly high number of terrorists ARE Muslims (al Qaeda or otherwise).
Only a very small percentage of Germans were Nazis (and only a small percentage of the Nazi Army were SS)... but it was still necessary to bomb (and firebomb) vast swaths of the country, including populations centers, to get the Nazis to stop acting like animals.
How is this any different? Like the Nazis, if the terrorist stripe of Muslims is allowed to continue their evil, homicidal, and oppressive ways, then the entire nation (as well as many others) is in grave risk of immediate harm, including death, torture, subjugation, rape, and butchery. I, for one, will not blink if we reduce Mecca and Tehran to cinders, raze every US mosque to the ground, and literally post military units at every oil head (literally taking the oil), at the next terrorist attack.
The nature and primary goal of war means ending the opponent's will to fight. (One need not end their ability to fight, unless they will never lose the will.) This is how the liberal movement has weakened America the most. Our will to fight for most causes, especially Freedom, is frighteningly low. For the terrorist stripe of Muslim, they believe that they get a place in heaven for a suicide attack. They are cheered by millions worldwide when they are successful. Since we cannot change the nature of fundamentalist Islam, we must take away martyrdom by changing the opinion of the common (cheering) Muslims. They must know, to a certainty, that with every attack, the Muslim world is going to suffer unconscionably. (And for a culture accustomed to having virtually nothing beyond personal relationships, this will take some rough tactics.) When a would-be bomber announces to his loved ones that he will kill himself to help harm the Great Satan, his family must have the desperate need to talk him out of it. They will fight, and possibly even kill, to prevent him from acting.
When that happens, then the War on Terror(ists) is won.
Very true. Today, nearly all terrorists are Muslims.