You said -- "I have to disagree. They lost a huge amount of their funding, two countries and tens of thousands of their lives for their trouble and have had Uncle Sam breathing down their sorry necks ever since. No, they are not smart. Any fool can destroy, what have they built?"
You're looking at it in Western eyes. You think of "building things" of improvement, of progress -- of having "accomplished something".
*Destruction* is the name of the game -- and more precisely our destruction and Israel's destruction. For them, out of destruction comes "their progress". Destruction is progress...
Regards,
Star Traveler