About WWII: We dropped nuclear weapons on two Japanese cities, killing scores of civilians in order to help bring about an end to that part of the conflict. Fast forward to today; we go to great extremes not to harm "non-combatants" and to avoid collateral damage. As long as we allow the enemy's infrastructure to remain; the supply chain; and the pipeline of materials and combatants for the future, we won't win. We are trying to fight a very limited type of war while our adversary is fighting an all-out war. They are fighting us with all means available to them to include cyber attacks, suicide bombings, direct action and unconventional warfare to the max, and we find ourselves often responding to the action after it has occurred with crap rhetoric like "We are investigating to determine if this is an act of domestic terrorism, international terrorism, or merely a random act of violence". Who gives a crap? We know that ISIS is waving their filthy flag and crowing aloud as they celebrate more dead Americans.
I'm surprised you captured my post so quickly as I deleted it almost as fast as I posted it. I was mostly "thinking out loud" and decided it didn't reflect what I was trying to say, hence my deletion.
The "enablers" to whom I refer is global Islam. It's not a "race" therefore "racism" against Islam is not a factor. Islam is a theocratic/political ideology dedicated to either converting you, killing you, or dying in the process.
In our case, muslims in America are the problem. That's what I was trying to say in my post. We historically don't fight just enemy combatants in war. We also attack their enablers, support, supply chain. My suggestion concerning separating "moderate" from "radical" was rhetorical. All of Islam is "radical" and until we admit such, we're fighting a limited war. Not unlike Vietnam where we were forbidden from taking the fight where it needed to go.
All of Islam "needs to go" and until that happens, America will always be a target. That's the point I was making and any trepidation in my post was due to the opposition we would encounter in the name of political correctness and "tolerance." We're also having to deal with our current potus infusing muslims into the highest levels of military and government that are making common sense response impossible. potus is also blatantly demoralizing and destroying our military which hinders our spirit as a nation.
The reason I posted the stats concerning muslim newcomers is because in those millions, it's foolish to think that many are not "radical." And as the violence increases the more we'll realize that it's not just high profile enemy combatants with whom we are at war.
Unlike Vietnam, this time we won't have the luxury of simply "pulling out" as the war is on our own soil.