Excellent response, but I'm not sure I agree, or perhaps understand, what you mean by 'excessive politics.' Perhaps we have a different definition of politics, or what it means to achieve something by political means. I wouldn't generally consider airplane hijackings, and many of the other points you selected as politics. Certainly, not in the ethical sense of politics, where ethical is antonymous of corruptible.
Politics is: Governance, which is what most people think of when someone says politics, is really only one form of politics, which we already knew if we would stop long enough to think about it for a minute. After all, there's office politics, sexual politics, high-school social politics, religious politics, the political economy, and so on. (Of course, we don't have to turn anything and everything into power struggles, and smart people won't, but some people just can't see things in any other terms.) Excessive politics are politics run out-of-control, and things like hijackings and violence and warfare are bare-bones, brass-knuckle, politics.Perhaps we have a different definition of politics