A somewhat similar scenario took place with the Murrah Builing bombing in Oklahoma City.
I have it on good authority that the order to arrest Richard Jewell or the 1996 Olympic bombing came directly from the White House...and Bill Clinton himself.
When politics intrudes on law enforcement, no good can come of it. See the Murrah Building, TWA 800, Centennial Park, Sandy Hook, Trayvon Martin, Ferguson, Baltimore, etc.
Hmmm, do I detect a partisan political pattern there...???
Freedom loving Americans can only dream of executive and legislative branches which were driven by the same militancy in protecting what is right and freedom, as these savages possess to destroy the same!
I believe these threats and actions are only playing out because the left/progressive leadership in America can use these idiots to weaken and dismantle our once free country, while giving cause to vastly strengthen the power and scope of our government.
We should have issued a single ultimatum or warning long ago. Something which would have clearly communicated that if a single U.S. Soldier, or innocent Christian civilian were to die at the hands of any Muslim/Arab government, derivative, or sect, at any time, our policy would have been to quickly remove the threat completely from this earth.
The ultimatum should have gone something like this: The first wave of complete and permanent response/removal will include Mecca, Medina, Tehran, Damascus,(fill in the blanks), and would also include the surgical, or not so surgical elimination of the top 5800 Islamic holy sites around the world simultaneously.
If this had been or was our policy, and it had been clearly communicated, the decision to comply or die would then simply have been made them, not us. If this had been our actual policy, it is guaranteed, someone would have tested this ultimatum, and we would simply not be having this conversation for quite some time into the future. A very long time.
If any other country, (i.e. Russia or China and the like) absolutely knew we would have carried this out, or learned after the fact, it is also guaranteed they too would have been seriously recalculating their calculus.
Just wishful thinking...