This is an interesting column, but ultimately irrelevant. We ARE at war. We KNOW the source of the ideology and funding of those at war with us.
Just as we were not at war with every German or Japanese citizen, we annihilated the sources of ideology & funding by bombing to rubble Dresden, Cologne, Berlin, Tokyo and hundreds of other cities.
There is and was nothing wrong or immoral about this. They were the enemy, just as a branch of islam is today. Collateral damage is part of war; too bad.
The mission of any military force is “to organize, […]