This is not a new Islamic strategy. After all, the sword has been a symbol of Islam for centuries. And Islamists are not keeping this strategy a secret as noted in this well publicized decree by Yemen-based Al Qaeda.
Both successful and failed attempts to blow up aircraft are just a few of those cuts. Islamists spend a few thousand dollars in acts of terror, successful or not, and we spend billions in reacting to each of those acts of terror. And our response is apologetically ham-handed to boot. We apologize to the Muslims (who represent the ideology that sponsors and carries out the attacks) while we assume all Americans are guilty with broad-brush, invasive and humiliating security procedures. Here is more on that insanity.
Some call this "asymmetrical warfare." Others more cogently call it "failure to identify the enemy." Lt. Col. Allen West, a new member of the US Congress, gets it. He is one of the few bold, clear voices who has identified what we are up against, and it isn't some nebulous "terror" that comes from the average American Methodist, Presbyterian, Jew, or Catholic:
Afghanistan represents several additional cuts among the thousand. We have failed to identify the enemy there. In fact, we are working in concert with that Islamic nation with the most noteworthy unintended consequences being 1) bleeding us dry, and 2) funding and sustaining Islamism in Afghanistan.
It is no secret that North Korea is working in common cause with Iran in sharing their common hatred of the United States. Their exchange of missile and nuclear weapons technology remains a major concern. The pre-Thanksgiving 2010 attack on South Korea by the North is one more well-orchestrated effort to draw down our attention and resources in another part of the world.
Mosques, Islamic Training Centers and Middle East Studies Departments in cities and on college campuses across our nation are working hard to substitute their barbaric Sharia law for our constitutional government. At the same time they continue to indoctrinate young people in hatred of the west and in funding Islamic terror around the globe.
Islamic propaganda and deception confuse most Americans with their constant barrage of "Islam is a religion of peace" messages. We could be staring at atrocities committed in the name of Islam all day long while Muslims proclaim "Islam is a religion of peace" and we believe the words more than the reality. Here is the reality of Islamic "peace."
Liberals, socialists, progressives, and the uninformed are in league with step one of the Islamist desire for the US: Destroy our history, our national identity, and our national pride. These groups have become useful idiots and apologists for Islam. Case in point: Even President Obama has declared we are not and never have been a Christian nation, that we are one of the largest Muslim nations, and that "I know, too, that Islam has always been a part of America 's story." This is blatant revisionism that will be believed by many if repeated often enough, despite historic facts to the contrary.
Death by a thousand cuts can be limited to injury by only a few hundred if we identify the source of our peril: Historic, orthodox canonical Islam as practiced by the majority of Islamic leaders around the globe and in the United States today. Despite Obama's misdirecting declaration that "we will never be at war with Islam", Islam is at war with us. The sooner we publicly admit it and act on that fact, the more likely our cuts will be fewer than one thousand.