A supermajority of Americans don't even support the ongoing occupation of Iraq, and I'm expected to believe they're now warlike enough to demand its nuclear annihilation?
"Plenty" of people may well say such things (though how many are serious?). But "plenty" in this country amounts to zip in the big picture. You're forgetting that a fringe that makes up just 1% of the population of the population is still a whopping three million people.
Again, if vitriol such as yours were directed at Muslims and not Americans, you would be chastizing the poster and not his victims. That you can post drivel like that straight-facedly and then complain about other people's lack of "moral credibility" is astounding.
As for your BTW, we don't need to "lead" anyone. They've contributed minimally to the war on terror anyway, despite the fact that we still largely rubber-stamp their national security checks. They have as much stake in this as anyone; if they don't like the way we run things, they can go it alone.
And I have a hard time believing the leaders of other nations are so uninterested in their own country's well-being that they will follow some worthless philosophical abstraction ("moral credibility," the meaning of which I still don't understand because no one ever actually says what they're talking about here) rather than real, tangible interests (like money, power, and their own security).
