Aestu wrote:
There will be no final battle. It's not a conventional military conflict. Which is why it can't be won militarily.
It's rare, but sometimes Aestu hits the nail squarely on the head

Pure aggression and invading these peoples' countries is not going to work...and it hasn't worked. Al-Qaeda is still alive and well, and really all we've done is continue to bankrupt the country with expensive, unwinnable, wars. Not to mention those American lives everyone gets so hard about defending.
Let me ask you, if we never went into Iraq, and got the hell out of Afghanistan, how many dead soldiers would have been saved?