The question is whether it’s “Islam” that is the threat, or just “radical” Islam, or just some Islamic individuals, or some scum that pretends to be Islamic. Whatever.

And with any threat, you can kill it, or weaken it, or convert it to friendship, or coexist with it at arm’s length.

Or submit (succumb) to it.

There, have I outlined all the choices?

So, what is the situation?

Whichever of these it is, I think we need to fight back aggressively, realizing that even our finest technological and political weapons are blunt instruments, and that’s just the way it’s gonna be. And if those standing in the position of becoming collateral damage don’t like it, they need to take much more active steps on their own behalf, to clean out the elements (sic) that do threaten us, before the hammer comes down, as it will.

The End.