It is difficult to face and fight an enemy when you :

1. Don’t study or understand them well as they change and move, fixing them in terms that you are familiar and comfortable with.
2. Overgeneralize and amplify their power.
3. Naturalize or pathologize the enemy’s behaviour, reducing them to forces rather than recognizing their humanity.
4. Fail to decide on key interventions, and instead try to win victories on all fronts, sometimes for fear of criticism of hypocrisy.
5. Follow people who have failed instead of learning from their failures.
6. Confuse tactics (pacificism, terrorism, negotiations) with political positions and strategic objectives.
7. Allow religions you don’t control to unduly influence key decision-making processes.
8. Lack resources and a sense of humour.

Unfortunately, some of your work is adding to that difficulty.