This is right on - its unspoken implication is that our only hope at defeating the Islamic Jihadists is to infect them with our malaise, materialism, and lack of courage, hopefully before they can kill millions. Anyone who comes up with the best way to do that will the hero of the Millineum.
That sounds so....French.
To defend oneself, one must also be ready to die; there is little such readiness in a society raised in the cult of material well-being. Nothing is left, then, but concessions, attempts to gain time and betrayal.
Of course, almost 30 years later, these pronouncements all seem less than prescient. The implacable Soviet and the degenerate West. Things didn't quite work out that way.
Really loved the Gulag Archipelago, though. And The Cancer Ward.