You know they are just trying to provoke us into expending more resources on them, right?
Nothing brings a band of durka-jihads more street cred than getting the USA on your ass. Recruitment would swell, and their (suffering) reputation among the arab world would increase. They also know that as soon as the USA shows up, all they have to do is put away their "uniforms" and flags, blend in with civilians, and they can't be touched. Meanwhile, we're spending billions of dollars on a useless occupation while they exert a cursory effort inflicting casualties with IED's, etc.
This is exactly why the terrorists are winning the 'War on Terror'. Until Obama, we've done everything they wanted us to do. We got bogged down in an extremely expensive and useless war in Afghanistan, and an equally useless occupation in Iraq which had the added effect of toppling Saddam, creating a power vacuum that allowed groups like ISIS to flourish. All while our economy and standard of living floundered.
Obama has been more reluctant to be provoked, opting instead to use black ops and his trusty drone swarm to violate the sovereignty of those countries who are either unwilling or incapable of controlling terror groups operating in their borders (Yemen, Pakistan, Somalia, Libya). Retards like to interpret this kind of foreign policy as indecisiveness or 'being a pussy'. If not being a pussy means you manage foreign policy like G.W Bush, I'd rather be a pussy. Sometimes the best action is just to stand by and wait for better conditions/opportunities, instead of making harmful emotional decisions.
Honestly I wouldn't be surprised if some day, perhaps 100 years from now, it comes down to genocidal extermination of fundamentalist Muslims. They would be doing it to us right now if they could. All it would take is a really, really bad terrorist attack, such as a nuclear device, and suddenly the kind and gentle "Don't kill civilians!" NATO would go Nazi on their asses.
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