>>>>We were fighting a suicidal society with a value system unlike our own.
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>>>Yup, and we're fighting one again.
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>>At least in WWII, the Japanese had a face, a country, and other recognizable traits. They carried guns, and wore uniforms. They had a higher degree of infrastructure to their military. But with this new one, they can be anywhere, looking like anyone. One could be sitting right next to you, and you would not even know it.
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>>How can we win this war, if we can not even recognize the our enemy?
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>I think there are some "wars" that just aren't meant to be "won", most likely for political reasons.
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>The "war" on drugs has seen unbelievable money spent yet more drugs than ever before being available! But look at all the beneficiaries of that spending and we can guess why it goes on and on and on.
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>The "war" on cancer is another example of something that is soooo big that terminating it by a cure discovery is now basically untenable.
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>We didn't need a "war" on terrorism. We just needed to get certain parties together to find the terrorists and rid us of them. But a "war" has so much more glamour, not to mention a license to spend for your friends and keep the citizens nervous and worried.
>The terrorists will be gone some day. Hopefully our society will survive the laws imposed by our leaders as a pretense to that happening.
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You are right about the paraty between terrorism and drugs and cancer. But with the terrorist, if we just do the one thing they have been asking for; "U.S. (Western society), leave us along!". They hate us because we are constainly imposing our way on them. IMO What if we did leave them along. Would cut us off from their exports? That would not help them at all. But think you are right about one think. It not about the war on terrorism, it is about "keeping the citizens nervious and worried."



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>>my 0.3 cents