Respecting your opponent is the key to winning any bout. Hold your enemy in contempt and you may miss the strategy behind his moves

If you find yourself in a fair fight, you didn't plan your mission properly.

Their plan is to return the entire world - not just the Middle East - to the days of the caliphate and either convert all of us so-called infidels into born-again Islamic believers or kill us.

Fortunately, it's still not too late to develop a comprehensive global strategy to eliminate our real enemy.

Fighting terrorism is not unlike fighting a deadly cancer. It can't be treated just where it's visible - every diseased cell in the body must be destroyed.

Respecting your opponent is the key to winning any bout. Hold your enemy in contempt and you may miss the strategy behind his moves

It's human nature to start taking things for granted again when danger isn't banging loudly on the door.