See my #51.
You are right about terrorists, because that is what the socialists are. You fight to win. The problem with preemptive attack is that the socialists control the media and will use that to destroy you.
So they get the first shot and then we bring doom down upon them.
Some would say they already DID - RE Steve Scalise.
But I hear you. Understood.
As heard in a poem before... tribal unrest burns down neighborhoods, but the awakened Saxon burns down continents...
Understand this: there will be no mercy or quarter given, nor expected. For me, that means no prisoners, and shooting the wounded. More pointedly, women and children get no special consideration. I know dozens of other individuals, whom I converse with from time to time - all of them ex-military, having the same attitude. It will be total war - and, this time around, it will make the first Civil War look like a damn picnic.