Panday’s evocation of “The Untouchables” reminds me that perhaps the real debate is our willingness (or lack thereof) to knowlingly go to hell for God.

We don’t fool ourselves with phantasms of a truckload of virgins (how good looking could they be, anyway?), and counting the cost is no fun.

It’s the blessing and the curse.

They have no Prince of Peace so of course they think we’re weak.

The “going to hell for God” theme was masterfully revisited in the new telling of the Batman fable. To catch the evil one, Alfred’s platoon had to burn down the forest.

We’re trying real hard not to do the same and it’s cost us lives but perhaps saved our souls. Perhaps.

Tell that to the (families of the fallen) Marines.