Self-Defeating Islamaphobia

I choose to outsource my commentary on Fort Hood to the Brits:

It’s a tragic massacre in the first place. It will doubtless increase suspicion of Muslim servicemembers, which in turn propels more religious polarization, which makes winning this war harder still. You can instantly see how the Malkins will spin this, and how a war on American Muslims can get jump-started in America.
The danger of this war on terror, it turns out, is that it not only collapses when it hits the ground in Muslim countries – as the sheer impossibility of using force to control Islamism in Iraq and Afghanistan reveals itself – but that its religious nature can divide the West as well, rendering a minority suspect and further undermining the chances of a multi-faith democracy successfully fighting a religious war without succumbing to more primal identities. Every which way, Osama wins.

Amen, Andrew Sullivan. This goes nowhere good.