No body made me judge or jury in this debate but I just read all the comments made here. This is a very intelligent group of responders. You all bring a good number of facts to light. It is TomOfSweden whom I think sets the debate in its correct light. The rest of us seem to support his position, give or take a little. But, there still remains a frustration among us: how do we deal with these terrorists?

As for the death penalty, it's final and we may get it wrong, but the recidivist rate is low. If the death penalty had been used more intensely with child abusers, many of the crimes against children we hear about on the news would not have occurred. So for me, I choose to put them to death or at least lock them up for life.

It is true, if you do a lot of reading, you might not choose the Christian God as your source of authority for fighting terrorists. That question is mute to citizens of the USA. You may not believe in God. But, by being a citizen you have agreed to defend our country against its enemies. You have two choices, (1) take up the sward and kill hell out of them or (2) win them over to our way of thinking (or both 1 & 2).

When it comes to our Christian values, American's are too tolerant to other ways of thinking. To me our way of thinking is superior to Islam's way of thinking. Let's tell them that. In the end, we may have chosen the incorrect way of thinking. We nevertheless have chosen.