I rather thought that almost 14 years ago, when we were attacked in the name of islam, we responded with a purpose.
The purpose was to discourage further attacks. We went to Afghanistan, issued warnings, killed and captured some people, changed the government.
We claimed victories of sorts, we supposed that not all of islam was our enemy, etc. And after awhile we fell back into a sort of complacency, deciding it wasn't such a big deal, after all.
That is where we remain. We remain in the mindset that all of islam is not our adversary.
And that is why we cannot bring ourselves to engage in a world scale war with islam or components thereof.
This sort of unsolvable dilemma, of it being either all or nothing is more acceptable for the moment.
The Iran "deal" is based on the least bad option. The US and the civilized world, simply don't want a big war, or to deal with the evil that islam too frequently imposes on people.
What is new on Netflix this week?