I feared our own irrational leaders (not all just Reagan actually) just as much as those commie bastids back in the day. Granted, I'm too young to have hid under my desk - Nixon was pres when I entered elementary, but immediate and total destruction is actually scary, cavemen not so much.
The WOT is a load of bull, and you know it. If it was for real they'd be hardening the security of our food and water supplies, hardening security at our nuclear and chemical plants, and port security would be important enough not to hand over to a foreign entity. It's just an excuse to loot the treasury, wage illegal war for strategic resources, and burn the Constitution.
FWIW - these Islamic fundamentalists have been there for a long time, they're not a new thing. We're apparently just now noticing - and they've noticed us too. 1972 Munich Olympics anyone?
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/mm-munich.html Just saying.