Time to Examine Strategy

What has been made perfectly clear this week is that a majority of our Congressmen and Senators are displaying a fundamental misunderstanding of what's going on in the Muslim world. But also, at the same time, Islamic militants have shown a very thorough understanding of how our society works and how they can go about defeating us without actually fully facing our military.

Here's a simplified flow chart of the Islamists strategy:

1. Carry out small acts of violence that capture attention---> 2. Feed the story the Western media which is looking for any type of bad news to get ratings and reflect badly on the Bush administration---> 3. Allow this media to dramatize and inundate Americans with the stories, which will end up convincing them the fight his hopeless and really has nothing to do with their own security---> 4. The American people and a few politicians remain uninformed about the severity of the threat, forget what happened five years ago, and lose their will. The rest of the politicians actually do realize the threat, but care more about positioning themselves politically than taking care of the country--->5. Finally, (thankfully we're not quite here yet) we throw in the towel in the war on terror, no longer proactively engage terrorist infrastructures overseas, let the Iranians do whatever they want, and allow militant Islam to expand in ferocity and influence.

This will only lead to even more radicalization of the 1.3 billion Muslims in the world and we'll end up with a devastating clash of civilizations.