You honestly have to wonder what dark questions they ask one another in their live meetings in the smoke filled rooms. You have to wonder with greater enthusiasm what they must be asking themselves in the deepest chasms of their evil souls...What happened? What went wrong? These guys were all bark and no bite! Now those weasels in Al Qaeda are dead or quiet or running for their miserable, worthless lives. And here we sit. D--n it, I can't sleep anymore! When will one of those d--n things fall out of the sky and make a giant hole where I'm sitting, or failing to sleep. What happened? Whose terminally stupid idea was to attack the Great Satan, anyway?
It's reminiscent of one of those made for TV Gunsmoke movies when Matt Dillon (Jim Arness) rode into town with three lynching victims slung across horses. Then he went into a saloon and killed two other guys. One of the town's people went to the deputy and said Dillon had to be arrested. The deputy said, "Hold on there. He came into town trailing three dead bodies. He's just accounted for two more, and it ain't even noon yet! You want him arrested, you arrest him!"
IMHO World War IV ended with the cessation of combat operations in IRAQ. Historians will say this was the turing point. Henceforth the rational self-interests of the Arab states came into focus; they developed real economies, they educated all their young, they even abandoned festering, centuries-old hatreds.
And America showed once more that conquest was not on its agenda but rather showing the world a path to new levels of peace, progress and wealth.
God, please make it so.