The writer claims anyone evolved enough to the point that they recognize violence breeds violence realizes that the current military strikes are not the solution. 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.