Interesting question by author: "Imagine in World War II if an American officer had shouted 'Heil Hitler: as he was killing un-armed soldiers."
Even more interesting question by OP: "we are going to give them spectacular opportunities to cause great destruction to show how superior we are...we might even get to take a nuclear explosion in Washington, D.C....that would be the ultimate proof of our superior tolerance."
Contrasting the two statements is nothing short of stunning. That we'd even need to surely a very bad sign not of things to come, but of to an end.