[lawdog]

I do understand. The value is in knowing how your enemy thinks so you can defeat them on teh batrtlefield and keep from giving them one propaganda coup after another. Pesonally I think “Through Our Enemies’ Eyes” is one of the better reads out there.

[rmlew]

My point is that Al Qaeda could find some justification to attack us.
Lets say we left the Middle East. Clearly we would still oppose the Muslim reconquest of Greece, Hungary, Romania, Spain, Portugal. Are we to ignore the number of times that Bin Laden mentions Al Andalus?
And that is only a limited defensive Jihad.