Enemy Regimes

They say the ideas of our enemies cannot be understood because they are fools or insane. The upside is that that fools and the insane should be easy to defeat.

We are given a summary of their ideology that succinctly calls it wrong, backwards and purposeless, without elucidating details for those who do not already agree with this dismissal of its merits. If the claim is true, those who hold that ideology will soon be a race between self-destruction and defeat by those they disturb.

With this discourse we are told of terrible fatal handicaps, and yet these crazed cripples display endurance far beyond what can be expected from the titles assigned to them.

Are we wrong about the viability of military tactics and nation planning ability of mentally ill fools with primitive ideas? Or do failed nations endure insular poverty far longer than expected, from expectation of hardship, minimal demands, and vigorously policing truths that cannot be spoken of the regime?