If you are going to mess around in their countries - yes it is their countries not ours - then expect blowback. They don't have to defeat us. They just have to outlast us. Eventually we give up and go home. Ask the Greeks, the Romans, the British, The Russians, and soon the British again and the Americans. Fools. You kill one and a hundred pop up. You kill a hundred and a thousand pop up. You kill a thousand and 10,000 pop up. The West are fools. For what? Control of oil? Resources? How many die?