Sounds exactly like the civil war with escalating casualites that we hear so much about in Iraq.
This is one of those times when (very loosely paraphrased) "we should stick together or else we will surely hang together."
I think that we need to get the news off Foley and let people know what to expect if the Democrats have their way in November, because the Democrats want to handle the Islamists the same way that Europe does, as a civil matter.