Reminds of the woman who rescued a snake and after a short period release the snake to the outdoors.
A week later the woman answered the door and it was the snake who immediately bit her much to her surprise.
The woman said after all I did to rescue you and you return and bite me!
The snake replied, “I’m a snake”.

““…if we would just be kinder and gentler to them.””

Like, ‘A kinder, gentler, machine-gun hand’ made famous by Niel Young?

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“be advised that Islamic terrorists in the Middle-East may instigate reprisals in our homeland sooner rather than later.”

They already have, we call them ‘Democrat Congress members’

“We never pay any-one Dane-geld,
No matter how trifling the cost;
For the end of that game is oppression and shame,
And the nation that plays it is lost!” – Kipling.

It’s not quite a universal truism – just close enough.

“…if we would just be kinder and gentler to them.”

“Kinder and gentler” were euphemisms for paying them off which was code for enriching Democrats. It did solve the problem of low bank account balances. “They just need more economic opportunities.” “We (you, the taxpayer) need to invest in…”

.40 cal Booger,

Now wait a cotton-pickin’ minute. For several decades Democrats have been telling us that such violent individuals are just misguided young men who will become peaceful and productive members of society if we would just be kinder and gentler to them. Are you telling me that Democrats are wrong in that regard?

Diplomacy means failed, as it always does, to stop these rabid terrorists. As has been born out through all human history, the only way to assuredly stop a violent threat is to stop the threat with violent force. Yes, find them and kill them.