Self inflicted cluelessness. What is the line from Lord of the Rings that Merry says to Frodo. Something like, "you won't save the Shire by being shocked and dismayed." Mark Steyn says that a nation that will not fight for itself has already lost. Sometimes I think that we have lost. Not only here in Israel but in the US as well.
Perhaps it is time again for this:
Hold your ground! Hold your ground!
Sons of Gondor, of Rohan, my brothers! I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me!
A day may come when the courage of men fails. When we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship. But it is not this day. An hour of wolves, and shattered shields when the age of men comes crashing down!
But it is not this day! This day we fight! By all that you hold dear... on this good earth... I bid you stand! Men of the West!