>>64130022
I mean yeah. Hamas being confined in Gaza in their particular circumstances probably precluded them developing the skills needed to become effective insurgents. But that still fundamentally means they're not actually as effective of insurgents as the likes of the Taliban or the VC. Those guys had decades of experience in the school of hard knocks learning to survive while the US was going all out in trying to destroy them. Hamas by contrast has spent most of its existence threading the needle of performing performative violence against the Israeli's to gain street cred while not pissing the Israeli's off *too* much...only for the performative violence to get out of hand and for them to be totally flabbergasted at the consequences.

If anything the Taliban/Vietnamese communists were probably smart enough to understand that pulling off a(nother) massive terrorist attack against the mainland United States would mainly make the Americans willing to throw themselves into the quagmire for another decade at least. I don't see them carrying out something like the 10/7 attacks.