Enforcement by the military is the last resort not the first. When all political solutions fail all that is left is killing for your cause. When 90% of your citizens are dead from bio war there is no cause, there is no nation.

Without a Global tribunal to clearly deliniate who the enemy is prior to enforcement the war will be based on unilateral ultimatum and attack. Whoever the allies may have been in the Islamic world, once the first of their own are killed in anger, America will be entering into a progressively weakened position.

Detente can still be used as a motivation for potentially allied Islamic nations to clean their house of terrorists. Our ability to make war is not the question. Our ability to make peace was given less than a week. Stand up and be not afraid. Your patriotism may help you die proudly or you may live long enough to see a self declared victory. The time for a sensible response has already been side stepped, so fight on , write some war songs. Learn of some neighbors you never knew existed so you can hate them better.

One bomb in the holy shrine of Mecca by anyone mad enough to do it will mean a holy war ad infinitum. Engaging in a war with many fronts has been a mistake all Empires have made in the past. They are no longer around.