Spot on. Even many of the intelligent, old-school American conservatives such as Ron Paul and Pat Buchanan fully agree with you. You also have the facts strongly on your side. Professor Robert Pape's study of suicide terrorists found that there is a very strong correlation between their mindset and the West's foreign policies (I don't expect psuedo-conservative jingoist warmongers to actually read anything they don't agree with, but I'll give them the link anyway):
Amazon.com: Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism (9780812973389): Robert Pape: Books