A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
“Their plan is to return the entire world - not just the Middle East - to the days of the caliphate and either convert all of us so-called infidels into born-again Islamic believers or kill us.”
“Actually what I'd like is to have a reputation as someone who's been wild and gone straight, but without having to go through the trouble of being bad.”