"Do you see that a sword cuts both ways?"
I can't speak for "RebelTex," but I will say that our greatest strength as a society, as far as our own citizens is concerned, is being exploited by an enemy from outside and inside. This exploitation is cynical enough to imply study of our external weaknesses, and deliberate, long range planning as to how to take advantage of them. To me, the enemy is anyone who would destroy me, those who I love and my state and nation. That there is a religious component to this "enemy" does throw us into disarray, and this is not accidental, in my opinion. It seems to me that a group of easily-manipulated, hot-headed, sexually deprived men with little hope of marriage, have been steadily radicalized over decades. I do not attribute this radicalization entirely to the imams. These fanatics are like puppets on a string, and their actions can and do serve more than one master.
Do you recognize that our most cherished ideals as a nation are being cynically manipulated from without, and if so, how would you propose to respond? I suppose your answer would depend upon what you presumed the intent of these attacks to be. Is it an attempt to subsume or destroy infidel nations, or is it an attempt to get us to abandon liberal society as it is understood in the western hemisphere? Could it not be both?