And in the meantime...

While our chattering classes, and their lawyers, continue to agonize over the "rights" of beheaders, these scientists are working in obscurity to protect America with a missile shield.
Which will come in very handy when the beheaders' cousins in Iran complete their nuclear program. Which is, of course, entirely peaceful. (Thank you, Ben Bova - good journalist, and a *great* writer of hard sci-fi)