(I died a little when I heard this. These people have no imagination, no way of understanding what the enemy is capable of.)
I told her that if I ever see a news story about a terrorist attack on a school (any school in our country) I would text message her "GET OUT". At that point, she was to excuse herself and walk out of the building. We have a prearranged meeting point.
I'd rather her get shot in the back trying to escape than tortured and raped for three days before being executed.
(I can't believe that I'm actually thinking about the preferred way for my daughter to be slaughtered. What the hell have we come to?)
At the risk of sounding flippant, because I most assuredly am not being so, welcome to the world of "war thinking"... "War thinking" is thinking that which would be totally unthinkable, and grotesque in the extreme, in a time of peace. Alas, however, we are not *in* a time of peace, as you yourself have at least subconciously noted...
the infowarrior