There is another possibility here, to which I am not averse in the slightest: The Muslim world will run out of cities and/or people.
Their choice.
>>how many Americans still do not want to face the truth that this is another battle to the death between cultures, if not nations.<<
I don't think most people understand this is a religious war, so there is no end in sight. The end will come when one side, us or them, agree to believe in that god.
Their bible, the Koran says to kill infidels (us) until they succumb. If we don't understand that we must have the same gpal, then the fighting will go on forever.
The instance in Falluha, where we backed off is something we should never do. You do not win by alloowing the enemy to regather, re arm and resupply their forces.
Appeasing the enemy will only result in more soldiers of our dying. Since it is unPC to stomp the snot out of them, I do not look for a short war.
Look what it took to end WWII. The H-bomb. The Korean War isn't over yet. Viet Nam is over only because we pulled out of the country in defeat.
Either we get in and destroy entire cities which will, (hopefully) cause the moderate muslims to forbid the radicals from ever committing another attack against us, or this war will go on forever.
There is another possibility here, to which I am not averse in the slightest: The Muslim world will run out of cities and/or people.
Their choice.