"But, total war means all Muslims are our enemies. It means that all Muslims are "jihadists" and all Muslims want our deaths."
Aha! Thank you very much. That is the error I've been trying to identify.
No, there is no requirement to believe those things. One must only understand that Islam, by its very nature, will periodically spawn Jihadists...that, in fact, Islam was designed to do just that.
Certainly there will be a number of innocuous Muslims at any given time, but as long as Islam is allowed to exist, the world will always be faced with the prospect of Jihad.
Islam itself is the enemy, regardless of the numbers of innocuous Muslims.
Ah, I love the smell of sarcasm in the afternoon.
The rest of your post can be filed under things I already know.
Islam itself is the enemy, regardless of the numbers of innocuous Muslims.
So, how do you fight Islam? Do you make total war on the Muslims who are fighting with us in this war? Does your statement that Islam is the enemy mean that all Muslims by default become our enemy whether they agree with the Bin Ladins of the world or not?