If I were the enemy ...

If I were the enemy the very last thing that I would want is the USA to disengage in the middle east.

So if I was a strategic and tactical advisor to the enemy leaders right now I'd be telling them to chill a little. By this means they can keep us engaged and resurge after the current antiwar feeling in the United States has subsided.

Yes, I do buy that there is a war going on. And, yes, as much as I hate it I am squarely on one side and they are on the other. Radical Islam is the clear and current enemy of the free world, and it is second only to the current US administration and similar forces at work in the West from the Christian side, followed closely in forth by the naive stupidity of Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, et al.

Reasonable men of science are stuck squarely in the middle.

Think about it.