This is a generational confrontation...we must treat it as such. We cannot fight such a war, against abject fanatical enemies (every bit as much so at the Nazis or Imperialist Japanese) in some kind of "more compassionate", "politically correct", or fairy-tale, la-la land fashion.
It only invites the next attack, which, as you say, will only be worse than the last...and continue so...until we wake up as a people and demand leaders who get the lead out and stop politic'ing and start fighting as if though we meant to win, and win unconditionally.
Well said.
The political correctness of the press and the influence on John Q. Public makes me sick.