That's too bad, because that's exactly the kind of debate we need to be having right now. Personally, I think every newspaper in the nation needs to run a front page picture of the bodies of those servicemen, with the caption "THIS IS WHAT WE'RE FIGHTING".
To me - I just cannot understand how the torture, mutilation, and beheading of our servicemen doesn't make the front page, while those "other" pictures do - over-and-over...
We are lulled by media and an administration that chooses not to go that route.
The problem is will it be too late when we finally wake up from our slumber?
Our success in WWII is in part due to espionage and code breakers. Are they are successful against this global threat?
We look to Nazi Germany for comparisons in this war (the attrocities and dreams of a supremacist homogenous "state") and to the USSR (for a hot and cold war that ran for decades).
But what of the anarchists in America in the early part of the 20th century? What of the KKK from the Reconstruction South into the mid 1960s (roughly 100 years)? THESE terrorists have more in common with those terrorists. They walk among us waiting to strike havoc.