The terrorists have got to be laughing at our insanity. They kill some of us and our response is to punish ourselves. We suffer al manner of indignities and twist ourselves into pretzels to avoid offending Muslims. What fools we are.
You hit the nail on the head. For the past nine years, we have tried to save our free society by systematically destroying it. They won, we lost. This is not murder, it is suicide.