I only wish Western people would realize there are only two ways to address this threat to our way of life.
Either we treat it as a law enforcement issue, in which case they better cough up enough cops with enough firepower and enough discretionary authority to adequately police our society and interdict those who would make our way of life unworkable, or we treat it as a military matter, in which case they need to STFU about "the innocent," because there is always going to be a cleaning lady in the building that gets bombed.
The fact that military action needs to be taken, by definition, means preserving her life is a secondary consideration to destroying the objective. Fixating on the injustice done to her only serves to soil the goal deemed important enough to require military action in the first place.
Mixing the concepts of law enforcement and war is as asinine as mixing gasoline and water. One mixed with the other makes the mixture fit to use for neither.
My thanks. Part of that was addressed to another matter, which was highlighted by the poster I was replying to, on the current state of our "legal" system, but the same applies either way...
the infowarrior
Our grandparents knew this, that's why they didn't advocate finding and prosecuting the pilots of the Japanese planes that bombed Pearl Harbor. They basically said F*** the Japs.
I've read all the comments by "commonasdirt". He/she/it will win plenty of accolades for their position in highschool civics classes. Unfortunately, we live in the real world. This is a clash of civilizations. They've happened many times in the past and will happen many times in the future. They're inevitably ugly but that's no reason to not fight them.