We are at war with terrorism. If we are really at war with all of Islam, may the real God please stand up, because it will ~NEVER~ end. It'd be irresponsible for any president to declare such a war, or refuse to work toward some kind of lasting relationship with reasonable forces within Islam.
I have no love for Muslims. But I have no respect for fundamentalists of any stripe who condemn everybody else. I'd love it if, as it turns out, you're all wrong. That'd be funny as heck.
Even the President has admitted that isn't true. In his last speech he said we were at war with "radical islam, islamofascism, etc."
If you read the Koran and the Hadiths, you will see that together they comprise a kind of "Mein Kampf." Like Nazism, Islam is unified by an undercurrent of anger and hatred, which is why it often expresses itself in destruction.
If our leaders in this War don't understand who the enemy is, how can we hope for victory.
The goal of Islam is the establishment of a world caliphate in which the only permitted religion is Islam.
There are many fine moderate muslims in the world. But it is the hardliners that rule Islam...and they are only doing what Allah commands. And Allah has commanded that everyone either converts to Islam, is subjugated as a dhimmi...or dies.