We are fighting at least three wars.
1) One against Mohammed and all his disciples We cannot win against 1 Billion Muslims spread from Morroco to Papua and Zanzibar to Almaty.
I understand the clash of civilizations rhetoric. However, just as the West is split, so too is the Muslim world.
i propose dividing them on ideological and ethnic grounds.
2) One against international socialism.
We gave up when the Soviet Union collapsed.
3) One against internal political and economic deterioration at home that will leave us an oppressed politically correct third world nation.
OK
Saddam Hussein has little to do with any of them. We are losing the three wars while people with high school pep rally mentalities cheer the capture of Hussein, who was little more than a local irrelevant chronic screw-up.
Ba'athis Iraq was a sponsor of Islamist terrorism. One down, 6 to go.
Defeating the regimes will not end the war, but terrorists are weak without state sponsors.
You raise interesting points. I've got not much time right now, but let me comment your last sentence
Defeating the regimes will not end the war, but terrorists are weak without state sponsors.
Are terrorists weak without state sponsors? I'm not sure. The idea that terror organisations or worse terror idelogies need a state sponsor sounds like an idea from the last century. In every war the ones who earned most were private cooperations or their CEO's.
There could be several men crazy or corrupt enough to "invest" into terror. After all money doesnt stink.