They won't come through the front door, you idiot. They'll follow you to a ball game or your wife to the mall and take out dozens or hundreds of innocents. They'll come for your other children and your neices and friends or take their revenge out on a random elementary school. But, hey, you go right ahead and taunt them behind your front door.
About that 16 years. What was it that prevented him from getting his retirement at 20? There's something fishy about that. And now yammering about a mission over all the networks? No, something smells.
With this Kabuki government, I’m suspicious, too. There is no telling how much “news” is radically altered for public consumption, if not made up out of whole cloth. Any number of major news event stories have serious and uncomfortable flaws.
Yes, cowering at terrorists is the wayto go.