They're Coming To Get You!

This being an election year, it is inevitable that the threat of terrorist strikes against the US will be shouted by all manner of right-wing politicians and pundits in an effort to keep the electorate scared to the point that the GOP will regain the majority, or at least stem the blue tide that has been ushering them out of office.

It is fairly common for conservatives to claim that we are "at war" with an insidious enemy that wants nothing less than to destroy the United States. Being the cynical person that I am, I am compelled to ask a very simple question to all of the conservatives who lose sleep to the fear that letting our guard down for even one second will allow the radical jihadists to turn our great nation into a theocracy guided by sharia law.

How, exactly, are radical Muslims going to destroy our country?

I ask this question because the claim seems like one of the most absurd that I've heard in recent years. I simply cannot comprehend how such a thing would happen. So please, conservatives, enlighten me.

Thank you.