Quote of the Day: Conflict and Comprehension

Profoundly simple yet desperately difficult.  Simple is not the same thing as easy.

If you don’t understand the extremism of the enemy, you don’t understand the enemy. And if you don’t understand the enemy, you have no idea of what to do in response. This is precisely the problem of the Western policy toward the Middle East and revolutionary Islamism. 

(Source of quote here.)