Snowflake Rumsfeld

Robin Wright at WaPo has an article on former Defense Sec.y Donald Rumsfeld's memo musings in which he showed his frustration at the growing public perception, media driven of course, that the War on Terror (including Iraq) was failing. As we've seen over the past six years, the Bush Administration and its supporters desperately seek--and have sought--to conflate Muslim fundamentalists and Islam: "Talk about Somalia, the Philippines, etc. Make the American people realize they are surrounded in the world by violent extremists" (my italics), he wrote.
Never mind that the United States, because of people like this, are dispensing their own violence in spades at a population that never sought confrontation, did not attack the United States and seek only--how dare they?--to have access to employment, food and water of sufficient quality and quantity, and the opportunity to raise their families. Kind of like what Americans expect.
At this point, of course, someone will sputter "and what about Al Qaeda and 9/11?!" which requires me to respond "and where have I said the United States should not go after, track down and bring to justice the perpetrators of 9/11--Al Qaeda?"
There. That's out of the way.