What westerners don't understand is that Muslims basically hate us because of our religious and political beliefs. Western civilization's values of individual freedom of religious choice and thought is antithical to Isalm's desire for total control of the individual and state.
We have been suckered into believing that the corrupt regimes of the Saudi princes and other sheikdoms are also fighting fundamentalism when they themselves put out all kinds of vile filth and lies about the west, Christians, and especially Jews in their own children's classrooms. They are out for self-preservation and the majority of islamic population tactity supports the terrorists.
The idea of "Your either with us or against us" holds a lot of merit.
And if anybody thinks that the fanatics that run Iran won't actually use a nuclear weapon to cripple Israel, they need to put down the crack pipe. These Islamic fanatics mean to do exactly what they say. Remember, they think they're on a holy mission.