Is there any alternative to war without end? (w/poll)

Americans are completely brainwashed (thanks to Bush/Chaney/Rumsfeld, neocons, and mainstream media) that we are locked in a total and permanent state of war with terror, and with Islamic extremists.  We as a nation have been so overwhelmed by the paranoid Republican narrative of history and current events that most of us can't even imagine an alternative interpretation.  But that doesn't mean that there isn't an equally plausible alternative explanation.  Bush and the neoconservatives, in the U.S. and Israel, and some hapless leaders who were willingly duped by Bush (most notably Tony Blair), have actually provoked the current state of war.  You may ask what about 9/11?  Could Bush and the neocons have provoked that?  Well, the answer is, quite possibly, yes.  But even if they didn't, their behavior since then has definitely provoked anti-American and anti-Israeli sentiment around much