Treppenwitz notes a pattern in the way Arab/Islamic despots approach war:

1. Instigate a war.

2. Once the war is well underway and you are in the process of having your ass handed to you… get a few world powers to force your western opponent into a cease fire.

3. Whatever you do, don’t surrender or submit to any terms dictated by your enemy. That would ruin everything! All you have to do is wait it out and eventually the world will become sickened at what is being done to your soldiers and civilian population… and will force a truce.

4. Once a truce has been called you can resume your intransigence (which probably caused the conflict in the first place), and even declare victory as your opponent leaves the field of battle.

Step 1 is easy.

Step 2 is helped along by anti-anti-islamofascists and useful idiots around the world who are only to glad to give the bad guys cover.

Step 3 is 4GW practice. Send messages mostly thru the media (with your side portrayed as the scrappy underdog holding out against the Jewish crusader) to raise support and funds outside your country, to drive fence sitters to war-weariness or a feeling of moral equivalency (and thus stay on the fence), become a hero to the shame/honor driven Arab-Islamic Civilization, and raise your profile among your rivals.

Step 4: If you survive, reap the rewards. Rinse. Repeat.

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