What if Jihad went silent.
Think about it.
On 9-11-01, 19 un-noticeable radical Islamic men hijacked 4 aircraft and kicked off a serious war with the USA. We have fought that war, even though our current President won't even call it a war, ever since. Introspection and history reveals that we should have been fighting it a lot sooner.
In most terror-related events since 9-11-01, we have seen terrorists express their Islamic fanaticism in stereotypical ways (shouting "Allahu Akbar"), while dressed and even armed stereotypically. The terrorists want us to see their evil side, the better to strike fear into our hearts.
Suppose, for a moment, that there ARE some smart terrorists leading Islam's war with the West, and they recognize the political fact that with Obama and the Left, Islam has an opportunity of winning it's war with the West faster*, but to gain that advantage, they would have to end the practice of in-our-face-jihad, because the images of jihad give us a mental picture of who to hate. Would they change their tactics to suit the political reality here?
You can bet your last bullet that they would, and maybe already have done so.
How do we fight this war if the terrorists hide among us and don't show themselves until they strike?
Short answer: with great difficulty, given the present leadership. We have to re-think strategies and tactics ourselves, because in reality, what difference does it make if we lose our war to radical Islam or lose a war to a Socialist dictatorship? Liberty is gone in both cases.
The answer for us is to raise our personal levels of awareness, raise our personal levels of combat-readiness, and sell these higher levels of conflict-consciousness to the less-committed at every turn.
What if there had been a couple of trained concealed-weapons carriers in that Roseburg classroom? What if the de jure State position allowing campus concealed carry did translate to the de facto side and the campuses were forced to accept that? School shootings end when the campuses are properly armed. Israel proved that over 40 years ago.
*Obama is losing the war for us, quickly. Ineffective military leadership from a de-professionalized and hyper-politicized military, deliberately pushing group-weakness over individual personal strengths (the rise of the gimme-gimme class), disarming veterans (the very people who, given a weapon, are the most likely to use it successfully against the enemy), all of these are war-losing strategies, not war-winning strategies.