The Golden Rule.
He who has the gold makes the rules.
All this information was available at the time the machine was spinning it, but the skeptics in our free society were busy jockeying for domestic political position and didn't bother to clear away the smoke and mirrors. Keep in mind the PR spin on the "Rape of Kuwait" cranked up during DS1. Iraq bad, Kuwait good, buried in the American psyche just a decade ago.
Hadji will never beat us on the battlefield, but just like Uncle Ho, he knows there are enough Americans who will CELEBRATE defeat. It is just a matter of time, and time is short.