Victory seems out of the question for so many of us. Better to let a fight drag on for years wasting trillions of dollars and thousands of beautiful young lives until the inevitable loss of popular support chalks up another defeat for the USA.
I think that we should not fight until we have to but then we kill the enemy not stopping for cease fires, or peace talks, or cheesy fake surrenders. We kill them until we have completely destroyed their will and ability to hurt us again and in the mean time scared the crap out of every other ambitious POS on the planet so that 100 years hence they will say to each other do not mess with the US it is not worth it.
The Duke of Marlborough, John Churchill, accomplished that during the campaign known as the Battle of Blenheim (early 1700s). His victories drove the French back to France, destroyed their military aspirations for a century.
Ancestor of Winston Churchill. One of those victories was in the Mosel River town of Trarbach. During my four years of living there, I never saw any acknowledgement of that battle. Little wonder...German town...British victory.
Hopefully I can return there before I get too old and feeble. The Mosel from Trier to Koblenz is an historically rich area, with a strong Roman influence that lasted 700+ years.