The hug-a-terrrorist crowd just don't seem to get it... the stakes are high, but the "useful idiots" stop us from doing what needs to be done right now to prevent many of those very frightening scenarios from eventually playing out and in doing so they put many more innocent lives at risk.
As for the "triple alliance" concept, sometimes I wish we were working on it right this minute, maybe not simply as a "triple alliance," but some sort of larger anti-Jihad alliance along the lines of the old NATO, comprised of nations that are facing the Islamic threat such as the US, Israel, Britain, Australia, India, Russia, so we don't keep getting in each others way and focus our collective attention on the enemy. Call it an "anti-terror alliance" or any other unassuming name, as long as the understanding and ultimate goals are clear among those who matter.