Jake and Grantt,
Even if the US would decide to follow your cowardlike and utterly utupian philosophies, they would still be hated by muslims. There are two reasons:
1. Is that the USA has a very large and prominent Jewish population. Muslims hate Jews and they hate our close relationship with Israel.
2. Muslims also hate Cristians, since the USA is a nation generally made up of Cristians, then muslim terrorists would still conduct their jihad on us.
Jake and Grantt, anyhow, I have always felt that you can't please them all. Luckily, idealistic, socialistic and anti-americans like the two of you are the vast minority. Look at the polls, 73% of americans agree with Bush and how the war is turning out. Think if this, why is Fox News obtaining higher raiting then CNN? The reason, is that CNN basically promotes anti-war in their news shows and from day 1 of Bush's administration have been promoting their Democratic Party's Pro-Clinton views. Fox on the other hand, is very pro-bush and pro usa and that is why, they are winning the ratings war.