Smarter than you, maybe.
Without a doubt.
Smarter, and more in tune with the enemy. The Kurds mixing women soldiers in with those fighting ISIS, for instance, is brilliant use of their knowledge of what ISIS believes - if it’s true that the ISIS Muslims believe a man killed by a woman can’t go to Paradise. It’s akin with letting ISIS know that you’re drenching all your ammunition in pig fat.
We have to be smarter than the enemy. The US under the foreign enemy combatant in our White House is - at best - way too stupid to do anything but advance the cause of ISIS and their ilk. The alternative is that they’ve been allies with ISIS and their ilk all along.
But the Egyptians, Kurds, etc - they mean to win, and that means pulling out all the stops. I’m glad somebody has the will to win, and the smarts to (hopefully) make it happen. They’re not in denial, and they know the stakes are too high to let ego-games get in the way. I wish Americans would learn and get real. Apparently there’s not enough at stake yet...