I think fundamentalism is this radical attitude toward one's own identity and civilization as compared to other people's identities and cultures.

Also, of course, for most of this time most Americans thought of America as a white country with, at best, only a very segregated and subordinate role for blacks.

I don't say that the West is united, I don't suggest that.

The U.S. has and still is cooperating with various military dictatorships around the world. Obviously we would prefer to see them democratized, but we are doing it because we have national interests, whether it's working with Pakistan on Afghanistan or whatever.

Collective will supplants individual whim

Both sides are divided and Western countries collaborate with Muslim countries and vice versa.

Islam's borders are bloody and so are its innards. The fundamental problem for the West is not Islamic fundamentalism. It is Islam, a different civilisation whose people are convinced of the superiority of their culture and are obsessed with the inferiority of their power.