1 million Algerian dead.
2 million Vietnamese dead.
1 million Iranian dead.
Nope, doesn't remotely stop any of it. Tyrants don't care how many bodies a policy costs.
War we always have with us. Ruthlessness doesn't make it go away. We can win any of them (we are winning in Iraq easily), but we can't get out of a single one.
And if the American people decide that they will only count as a victory, the absence of any war whatever, anywhere, no matter how lopsidedly won - then they condemn themselves to defeat, endlessly. Because the least little two bit militia in Somalia can manage that much. No matter how many times you've made the rubble bounce.