I have looked in the mirror, and had an epiphany. We really did provoke this. They murdered our citizens, destroyed our buildings, invaded our countries, AND WE LET THEM! WE NEGOTIATED WITH THEM! We must not fail to destroy them utterly in the future. Leave no two stones standing on top of the other. Pax Romana, yes. But Pax Jimmuh, Clinton, Bush, Obama has failed to yield the desired result. So Pax Romana it is.
That’s more like it.
The answer to our past weak response is not more weakness and groveling.
Go Roman Empire on them!
I am past tired on this fake introspective navel gazing.