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Just let me throw this thought out. If you were an Islamic terrorist, why would you attack in the United States just when they are planning to take Syrian refugees (or maybe beginning to debate the issue)? Wouldn’t that sort of hurt your overall strategy?

Local ISIS or Islamic Fundamentalist sympathizers have been called on by the Caliphate to attack.

They are not using a play book or a strategy guide. They will attack whenever and wherever they can.

For that matter, neither will the actual core groups. If they think they can get a good target of opportunity lick in...they will do it.

Trying to employ western style thinking to this is to completely mistake the threat and be very susceptible to it.

Who knows. Their logic isn’t exactly logical.

Just let me throw this thought out. If you were an Islamic terrorist, why would you attack in the United States just when they are planning to take Syrian refugees (or maybe beginning to debate the issue)? Wouldnâ€™t that sort of hurt your overall strategy?

Decentralized groups make it hard to infiltrate and capture the terrorists.

The downside is decentralized decision making, each groups decides for themselves when to attack and where, and may not be aware of strategic implications.

Not really. That ALREADY have an army 100000 strong! And also, what is actually going to be done, except importation of more scuzzlims, and bans on body armor and other punishment of legal citizens.

If you were an Islamic terrorist, why would you attack in the United States just when they are planning to take Syrian refugees (or maybe beginning to debate the issue)? Wouldnâ€™t that sort of hurt your overall strategy?

It has been posted on FR they, middle easterners, only have an average IQ of 80.

“Just let me throw this thought out. If you were an Islamic terrorist, why would you attack in the United States just when they are planning to take Syrian refugees (or maybe beginning to debate the issue)? WouldnÃ¢â‚¬â„¢t that sort of hurt your overall strategy?”

Speculation is that ISIS wants the West to close itself off to Syrian refugees to further their narrative that Islam is at war with the West. Remember these people are trying to trigger an apocalypse where they fully expect all out war to be waged against the whole of the muslim world.

Just let me throw this thought out. If you were an Islamic terrorist, why would you attack in the United States just when they are planning to take Syrian refugees (or maybe beginning to debate the issue)? Wouldnt that sort of hurt your overall strategy?

Agreed.

But in the US ISIS depends on self-appointed lone wolves and small cells.

Still to early to know.

I'm going to think from a different angle for a minute. If their goal were to find a way to stop the exodus from Syria, attacking the potential hosts to turn public will might seem like a good plan.

Why would they want to stop the exodus though, I wonder? We know ISIS wants global Sharia law governing all Muslims. Perhaps they fear the rapid dispersal of Muslims to Democrat countries dilutes their control.

That’s like asking, why spend your money on food now when you can invest it and have double the money in 5 years.

Movements like ISIS are like living organisms, sure they have long term goals, but they also have short term day to day goals critical to their existence.

They need financial resources, new recruits, etc, constantly, and you can’t get those unless you have achieved victories that you can point to people as evidence of why they should continue to support you.

Just let me throw this thought out. If you were an Islamic terrorist, why would you attack in the United States just when they are planning to take Syrian refugees (or maybe beginning to debate the issue)? Wouldnâ€™t that sort of hurt your overall strategy?

You would think so, but, for people who really understand the left, it actually makes sense. They know that people on the left live by two rules: 1) make everything political, and spin everything to cast blame on the right, no matter how egregious the lie; and 2) never, ever, admit you are wrong, or even hint that you share .01% of the blame for any issue that comes up. The left has positioned themselves as the defender of "refugees". If these invaders/refugees commit violence, they will do everything they can to spin it such that the blame lies with "the right wing." And second, they will never admit that they were wrong. In this case, anything other than doubling down on their current position would be a tacit admission of guilt. As a result, look for the left to be even more "pro-refugee" than they were.

The net result is that, while we don't yet know what happened, it is strategically sound for Islamic terrorists do this, at this time (in fact, it is even more important than usual, from their perspective). This is because it forces the left into a corner. And if they are stupid, ignorant, malevolent, and unethical, under normal circumstances, when backed into a corner, they turn evil.