You can say the same exact thing about Vietnam. We won every battle, but our enemies from within had our people lose their desire to win, and the leaders decided to retreat, leaving Vietnam to the communist for no good reason.
We've had some cancers from within this country for some time (all on the left). It is most interesting that we refer to terrorist as CELLS.
We have the most potential in the world, but we have a number of people who have gotten fat and lazy and I believe this reversal of greatness started after our greatest generations of WW2.
The Clinton's without the hippie generations, could never have gotten power like they did.
We also see God being torn out of anything in public by laws, a sign of perhaps the end of good times. We shall see how it goes, but I wish us the best...