Asking "what does my enemy want me to do" is very useful when you are trying to predict how the enemy will respond to your possible future moves.
Yes. It's completely useless, however, as the basis for making your future moves.
Reversed stupidity isn't intelligence. Counterstrategy isn't strategy.
Here's my op-ed that uses long-term orientation, probabilistic thinking, numeracy, consider the alternative, reaching our actual goals, avoiding intuitive emotional reactions and attention bias, and other rationality techniques to suggest more rational responses to the Paris attacks and the ISIS threat. It's published in the Sunday edition of The Plain Dealer, a major newspaper (16th in the US). This is part of my broader project, Intentional Insights, of conveying rational thinking, including about politics, to a broad audience to raise the sanity waterline.