Get used to the fact that there is no war to win or to lose. There is a condition that applies across the world, whereas a certain group may at any time sprout violent men for no apparent reason. It is one of the many unpleasant features of human life, or of modern life if you will, like corporate corruption or political incompetence. You cannot put an end to it with any wars, although military campaigns can be one of the many means by which you work to bind, placate, block, or disable this tendency. To think of it in terms of a war is miserably restrictive and sure to fail. Remember the "war on poverty"? The war on terror - or even on Islam - will fail for the same reasons; because just like the poor, the fanatics are always with us. And what is worse, once you formulate the issue in those terms, you encourage your political enemies to point at the inevitable strategic failure of your efforts and conclude that the whole idea of a WoT was a delusion and that there is no problem. We are seeing Nancy Pelosi and some European lefties do so every day of the week. And the point is that the problem is not too small, but too big to be defined as a war. It is a part of life. And we must get used to seeing it as such. The sooner we drop these silly macho and ultimately escapist formulas - "war on crime", "war on poverty", "war on terror", "war on drugs" - the sooner we shall be ready and able to confront crime, poverty, fanaticism and drugs as they really are.