When I can get on a plane carrying my Leatherman, and visit the Smithsonian without having my camera bag searched, and the traffic barriers come down in front of the White House, that's when I'll agree we've won the war.
Well stated. It will be awhile, to be sure. The problem is that we are fighting an islamo-scum ideology that stretches from the far east, centered in the ME, to many parts of Africa, with sleepers sprinkled throughout the west. If it were only the nation-states of Iraq, Iran, Syria etc, then it would be easily contained. It is not. Far too long the west was asleep at the wheel. If it were not for the US, the west would have to capitulate.