Another point he makes that I seldom see articulated:

There is also considerable disagreement over whether religion really is the driving force behind the conflicts that are commonly attributed to it. Many people in Ireland insist that the Ulster conflict is about British rule versus Irish unification, not about Protestantism versus Catholicism. And among the Islam-aligned forces with which our country is currently entangled, Saddam Hussein\ufffds Baathism is more secular and nationalist than it is religious. Whether or not religion is a major force is a question best left to our colleagues in history, government, and area studies, in the context of the broadest possible study of world affairs.

Almost by definition, fundamentalists on both sides will voice all opinions and positions (theirs and everyone else's) in terms of their fundamentalism. Just because they see no non-fundamentalist solutions does not mean there aren't any.