The other alternative is that America will finally be provoked beyond all reason and begin to act like their enemies
This is exactly what the salafists want. They want America and the west to start throwing Musilms into camps..etc. The fact that we don't is the reason way we are winning and will defeat this enemy.
They think they want it. Truth is, they never in their history have ever respected anyone who stops kicking them. They are known for making absolutist speeches while sending their lackies to die. They are like the apes posturing at the waterhole at the beginning of "2001". They bluff, threaten, and kill those who will not fight back, then run away squealing when defied. Even recent history is full of examples..."Mother Of All Battles".
Just lower primates, not fully human, and when treated as such, always quiet down.
They have just had a good coward pool in recent decades, like shooting fish in a barrel.
The poster you were replying too assuredly wants to do more than that.
People generally won't come out and say it in so many words here (but they'll come close at times) but there's a significant population that fantasizes about mass global extermination of Muslims - these are the people that get frustrated by the lack of large scale terrorist attacks in the US that they conceive would allow for such an occurence.