have we lost the war??

the most direct answer to that is NO!

How do we define a victory in this war? Can we realisticly eradicate terrorism in 5 years,10 years or even in our lifetimes? A simple answer is no. Terrorism has deep roots which are fed by poverty,western double standards (or which appear to be double standards) etc..Total eradicaiton of terrorism or eradication of terrorism as we know it wont take place until these fundamental problems are solved. However a good question is “ARE WE WINNING THIS WAR??

My answer to this would be yes

I say so because we are so much better protected now against these radicals and extremists then we were say pre-911 or even before that..we have recoganized the threat,recoganized and identified the enemy,identified the source of the problem,ID the weakness’s of the enemy,ID some or most of the tactics of the enemy and more importantly have made an attempt to recoganize Our shortcommings that the enemy exploits. A vast majority of the world has come together and seems to have a consenses regarding the joint effort that would be required to fight this WOT (exclude iraq for the moment cuz that is debatable)..However the bottom line and a fundamental fact of this war is that the terrorists only need to get lucky once whereas we need to be lucky all the time ..We must realize that we wont be lucky all the time because we are not perfect..

Id the enemy is not enough we must analyze what actions we have taken to counter the enemy..There is a massive global hunt for terrorists across the globe from the bronx to the mountains of afganistan to the islands of indonasia…can this hunt be done better..definately yes..There is also a crackdown on extremist or sympathetic govts. which might harbor them..we can also move that at a faster pace..We are fighting them,hunting them,in a lot of cases we are winning..and in a lot of cases we are far from that.. A TOTAL VICTORY EVERY TIME IS IMPOSIBLE AND UNREALISTIC