"Gould 0738" wrote in message

So your recommended course of action would be to hang around the hive,
identify and separate out the few bees that actually did the stinging, and
relocate these bees for punishment?

Unless we can justify making war against an entire society and its
government,
we have no choice except to prosecute these criminals for what they are.

No proactive justification is required. They declared war on us, and
initiated several demonstrably warlike attacks before we responded even
once. You can damn near count on one hand the number of Islamic
organizations that have condemned terrorist actions, or Islamic governments
that have taken assertive steps to stop supporting terrorists within their
own jurisdiction. This is not a group of people actively rejecting a
cultural war. Today's actions are looked upon in the Muslim world as the
Third Great Jihad, dating back some 1400 years, and the two gulf wars of
recent times do not constitute the prime causative factors. It is a mistake
to think that diplomacy and negotiation are the order of the day. That is a
western thought process.