The Patriot Post® · How to Ensure Ruthless Tactics Will Fail

Ed Feulner: “According to Heritage Foundation Senior Research Fellow James Phillips … the Islamic State’s ‘slickly packaged jihadist propaganda seeks to stimulate and galvanize members of the movement, spur potential recruits to join in the carnage and incite additional terrorist attacks against the United States.’ Action on our part won’t create that. Inaction will. We have to remember that ritual killing is also meant to inspire fear and dread. The intended targets – the United States and its allies – are supposed to be cowed. It’s important to show that such ruthless tactics will fail. ‘When people see a strong horse and a weak horse,’ Osama bin Laden once said, ‘by nature they will like the strong horse.’ Wise words from a man whose reign of terror was cut short when he was gunned down by U.S. Special Forces.”