....”Considering the perps died in a hail of bullets, I think there’s a level of recognition that the non-Muslim world will defend itself against specific acts of violence”....
Apparently you got only part of that story so I will still disagree that the non-muslim world is going to do more than they have to rid us of this Islamic threat.
That hail of bullets was after ‘hours’ of “sweet talk” trying to get them into surrendering. The gunmen made it very clear and without doubt they were going to go down in a blaze of Glory. ....the police simply gave them what they asked for when they came charging out with all guns blazing.
You always want them to surrender. Can't get information out of dead bodies. The French used to have creative ways of extracting information with the aid of a car battery and jumper cables.