1. because we are a Global Power and have Global Interests to be protected.
Really? What interests? That the Jews can keep pretending that their God loves them? That the Oil companies keep making a profit. Please let me know how that is in the interest of Joe living in Chicago. Thanks.
2. because high-speed travel, instantaneous communications, and nuclear weaponry all serve to prevent us from hiding any longer in our cave beyond the seas
Again, ISIS doesn't have nukes, and if we aren't securing our airports and databases, shame on us.
3. because Islam has been under the heel of colonial EuroTrash for centuries, and is now re-awakening and re-militarizing, after coming to the realization of just how far behind the rest of the world it had fallen while under the EuroTrash jackboot, and it's pissed at all The West - including us - long before we began intervening against them.
That would be a good argument for not pissing them off any further, not pissing them off more. But to the point. Most of these countries are dirt poor, they are not an existential threat to the US. Fear of them has probably done more damage than they actually have.
4. because if we don't do it now, our children and grandchildren are going to pay a far higher price than that which we - and they - will pay for our present course of action
5. better to be killed as a bull than as a sheep
Really? Frankly, I've never seen anyone selling "Sheepburgers".
Your argument seems to be, our policies have made the Middle east a hotbed for extermism, so let's keep doing more of that.
It's like slapping a child to get him to stop crying.