Your point is excellent. Unfortunately, our leaders do not acknowledge that we are in an existential war, nor do our leading academicians, nor do our media thinkers and inkpissers acknowledge it or allow such ideas to go unstomped; which means we cannot possibly win it.
We who recognize that Islam is at war with us existentially, are a tiny minority. We don't make policy, we don't affect policy, chirping away at our keyboards.
Yeah, I know. But I chirp, therefore I am. :0/