Do you really want to declare a billion people your enemies? I think this is exactly what the terrorists wanted.
Isn't it infuriating when something is so bloody obvious and the knee-jerk armchair warriors and their vanguard microphone-hogging leaders are unable or unwilling to see it? I think if Osama had passed wind in some remote cave somewhere these neocons would have taken it as a clear sign that a world war was in order. They do have the dialectic down very well, that you have to hand them.
Knee-jerk? You mean knee-jerk as in jumping to conclusions? Knee-jerk as in dive-bombing a discussion without realizing it has already passed you by? Knee-jerk as in pasting labels on anyone and everyone who says something with which you disagree?
ps: don't look now, but I think there's a "neo-con" behind you.