Suppose there are two entities at war - a Nation-state, and a group that would like to be treated as a nation-state, but has no borders or capital.
Suppose the group realized it could not fight the Nation-state on conventional grounds, but sought to utilize a weapons bandwidth that was not seen by the Nation-state's defense systems.
Suppose the group studied history and realized that groups enganged in mortal struggle against each other don't usually share tactical information that may be of use to the opponent.
Suppose the group has chosen as its primary weapons delivery system the single warrior charged with creating maximum chaos with the minimum cash expenditure?
Suppose the group has decided it best to leave little if any trace of its activities after leaving the "battlefield"?
Take a look at Washington, and remember we are at war with Al Qa'eda and have been since 8:46 AM on September 11, 2001, and see if that doesn't make sense.
In what now looks like one of the worst foreign policy blunders of the postwar era in light of North Korea's acknowledgement yesterday that it's working to develop nuclear weapons, the Clinton administration poured billions of dollars in foreign aid into the rogue state throughout the 1990's - and earmarked a substantial portion of that aid for North Korea's nuclear energy program. [Emphasis added.]