Sure. Makes sense to me, totally. What kind of a fruitcake would, even as fiction, rationalize such a disgusting fall into irrational primitive savagery? What a disgusting piece of delusional self-righteousness and PC run amok.
you need to make this rhyme...."so it'll fit..."
That is the thinking of the French, the appeasers, the Neville Chamberlains, the Democrat Party and the left in general. If we would just appease the enemy, he will be nice then. If we'd appeased him in 2004, then the enemy wouldn't have nuked us in 2009.