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This is a long war unless Iran precipitates its own destruction. That is how the war will end, with the massive destruction militarily of the principal foe, which has always been Iran. It will take that to convince the Mohammedans that God does not will Islam to prevail at this time. That is what has happenned in the past, at Vienna, at Lepanto. The defeat is never final because large numbers of the paynim are left alive but the cancer will go into remission and torpor for a couple of generations or centuries.

Nationbulding is okay in Iraq because even obliteration of Iraq does not touch the heart of the beast. That heart resides, in this era, in Iran. Nationbuilding gives us the excuse and visible necessity for keeping our military in Iraq right next to Iran. I fear that Iran will not be finalized in the term of this president and his successor will drop the ball and pull back. If it is a Republican we will remain militarily strong even as we succumb to that other cancer from the south. If it is a Democrat, especially if he has a compatible Congress, then we will probably finish the war but it will be at tremendous cost. We must first suffer some truly grand catastrophe on our own land, perhaps Boston gaining a new and glowing crater or a whole series of 9-11 strikes but I expect a Democrat to suddenly make a spastic response like Clinton did with cruise missiles but this time with ICBMs or SLBMs that will be far broader than necessary and probably not touch the heart of the enemy the first time.