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Broca

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Italiano
Hi everyone,
in a contemporary novel by Mark Greaney, a member of ISIS is addressing America in a video. Among other things, the man says:

War, total and complete. Everywhere. At all times. You are too afraid to confront us with numbers on the field of battle, so we will confront you with righteousness, wherever we can find you.

I don't know if I've understood everything correctly, because the construction confront sb with sth is confusing me. Now, I think the man is saying: You are too afraid to confront us on the battlefield [therefore with soldiers (=numbers)], so we will use righteousness to confront you [like a weapon].
What do you reckon? Am I mistaken? I may well be, I'm not sure at all.

Thank you in advance,
Andrea
It is standard, you're absolutely right, but it's confusing me in this instance. It seems to me that here it's used twice in two slightly different ways...

Andrea
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