WHY WE'RE NOT WINNING

• Getting to be tedious isn't it?
  
  The US response to the next terrorist attack will be just like all the others.  Obama will step to the podium and ask us to not blame Islam. Oh no, we mustn't do that. We're just as prone to hate, aren't we?
  
  It's "Radical” Islamists, you know. Not all of them, just some of them. Which ones pray tell?
  
  So what is the solution?
  
  There is no solution to this problem that does not by necessity involve consequences which accrue to all Muslims.
  
  First, we must remove the word “radical”. Until we do, a sane response cannot be contemplated. Until we refuse to attach this descriptor to the word Islam, we will continue to watch innocents die.
  I am sure there are adherents to Islam who are peace-loving, but these are precisely the ones to whom consequences must accrue, if we want all we hold dear to survive the war that is being waged against us.
  
  We must state clearly and distinctly that our future actions abroad will have a punitive and retaliatory character. We will no longer apologize for collateral damage.
  
  Domestically, our goal should be to make the United States of America the most inhospitable place in the world to practice Islam, until the deaths of our citizens at the hands of Muslims and in the name of their God cease.
  
  Completely.
  
  Donald Trump’s proposal to shut off immigration from certain Muslim countries, and Ted Cruz’s plan to patrol and infiltrate domestic mosques and Muslim enclaves represent an effective beginning, because these are the only proposals thus far that allow consequences to befall all Muslims. These are sane proposals because all others require us to have the ability to read minds.
  All other proposals are insane, precisely because they are “targeted” toward “radical” Islam, and require us to develop the ability to read minds.
  
  

  Islam must be declared as the enemy. Unabashedly, unapologetically....Islam.

  
  

  And once consequences begin to befall all Muslims, we will find that those who are not radicalized will begin to offer some help, they will have a multitude of reasons to do so. They'll begin to police themselves. Aside from being the sane solution, declaring Islam and all its adherents as the enemy will also result in less death and destruction. This makes it also the most humane solution.