Solarman's Neo-con Republican picks (Romney McCain Bush) hurt our country through supporting the war

OK Solarman, so your bottom line is that Islam is at war with us, therefore we are justified in being at war with them. Now, this seems to be a pretty good line of thinking, but let us pick at it with some logical arguments to see if it holds up. I hear John McCain will stick it out in the middle east for the next 50 to 100 years, if that is what it takes. Is this your plan as well, Solarman? You see I don't feel like paying for this war for another 100 years, and I don't think our country could possibly last that long the way we are going anyway. My point: when will Islam be defeated? Islam is a religion; it is an idea. You can't kill an idea with a bullet, or blow it up with a bomb. If Islam is determined to wage war on us, there isn't much we can do preemptively to stop them in the middle east. The more we do over there to persecute Islam, the stronger it becomes due to our persecution. Does that make sense? The Islamists use our presence in the middle east to fuel their motives, and we need to get out of there so that they don't have that cause to fight for. If we spent this war money in a positive way in the middle east, with diplomatic and humanitarian processes, we could further kill the anti-western cause that is cindering in that region. What is our goal in the middle east? If Islam has waged war on us and we are responding in suit, then we must destroy all Islamists and Islamist nations. If we leave any Islamists alive, they will begin to recruit and rebuild and rise once again to terrorize our nation. Is this the logic you are using? Because you can see that this is not an achievable goal. Our methods regarding the middle east more resemble a schoolyard fight then a strategic military mission. John McCain used the words "50 to 100 years" for good reason. That is because there is no end in sight, despite George Bush using statistics rhetorically to try and demonstrate that there is. The only statistics that matter are the families that have been ruined in the middle east, the growing numbers of religious zealots that are resulting, the numbers of dead US soldiers and Iraqi civilians, and the time it will take to get our troops out of there. Every other statistic is irrelevent. The rest of the world has also been steadily losing faith in us, and we are finding ourselves in a worse and worse situation every day. We do need, despite common republican garble, the support of the rest of the world to operate efficiently. If our own country has such high negatives regarding our president, then what do you think europe, asia, and africa think about us? But who cares about them, right? We don't need all those continents to care about us because we are rich and powerful. We don't need to end our war because Islam has taken a stand against us. We don't need to respect other countries the way we would like to be respected because we are in the right. If Islam was over here during our civil war, telling us to sit down and SHUT UP instead of fighting it out, I'm sure all of us would be ready to fly a plane into some of their buildings. If Islamist troops were over here stationed in our hometowns, I'm sure some of us would consider blowing up those SOB's too with some home-made explosives even if it took our own lives as well. If most of our American families were missing half of their members because of Islamist troops and civil warfare I'm sure we would hate them too. Empathy and general open-minded and impartial thinking from multiple perspectives is not a common virtue among us Americans, especially the neoconservatives. They don't consider it even, because they assume that we are the supreme white christian pinnacles of morality and justice and just what God had in mind for the best country in the world. It is a selfish way to live indeed.