But the writer fails to give us his proposed solution unless doing nothing is that proposal. This is the typical liberal non-response. If so and we follow that course, the future is bleak indeed for civilization. As bleak as if we left the Third Reich to its designs. War is horrid.
Innocents lose lives.
Realists, however, deal with problems rather than hoping they will miraculously disappear. America is far from perfect. Nonetheless, we are the greatest and most benevolent society the world has ever produced. The greatest tragedy would be to allow a minority of hate-mongering zealots destroy what we and the rest of the civilized world stand for. Merely hoping that the terrorist problem goes away will do just that.