I'm more simple-minded.
Ignorant people don't really have long-range strategy.
People without the power to reason turn to violence.
Ignorant, superstitious, violent and unscrupulous persons are very ineffective at accomplishing anything requiring planning.
Since 9-11 2001, the opportunities for launching hundreds (if not thousands) of effective plots against America have gone TOTALLY FLAT.
Why?
These people cannot make a plan and carry it out effectively because they are intellectual insects.
Exactly how effective is cutting off the head of some hapless person posing no threat?
It is mindless mayhem indicative of morons who are frustrated and narrow.
In the ancient world, it was the uneducated who turned to superstition. Superstition led to Religion as a means of self-empowerment.
In the ancient world, it was the educated thinkers who turned to Philosophy, Logic and Science for self-empowerment.
The Western World flourished and the Eastern World remained prmitive . . . but why?
The West embraced Logic. Logic brought Science and technology.
The East embraced Superstition and turned to the worst aspects of Religious fanaticism.
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Japan, when it struck its blow against the United States at Pearl Harbor, brought America into WWII.
America defeated them and deposed their God, Hirohito. Japan went from being a feudal society into a modern miracle of prosperity because Emperor worship was ripped out of the soul of Japan like a cancer from a healthy body.
ISIS is a manifestation of failure, ignorance and un-thinking, unreasoning men.
The worst thing you can say about a human being is that they are pro THEOCRACY.
Jehovah's Witnesses are a different kind of ignorant theocratic conspiracy to take over the world. They are equally ineffective at much of
anything except recruitment.
How do they recruit? By telling ignorant people superstitious lies about rewards in Paradise.