The Germans (400K during WWI and WWII) and the Japanese (100K during WWII) have killed 500,000 Americans between them. What would you call them?
Defeated.
I’ve always believed it was a mistake, philosophically and for our leaders, to denounce “terrorism.” In fact, the use of terror has been a fundamental part of war. I’ll grant that the bombing of Hiroshima was an act of terror, but a legitimate one. One reason, I believe, why American wars have been so ineffective in recent years is because our leaders constrain the military from inflicting terror on the enemy.