Our freedom, our humanity, and our justice.
They are also our greatest strengths.
We are winning the WOT. Iraqis and Afghanis want to live in freedom. They don't want terrorists or strong men. Those who spout such BS that they are all terrorists or they need, nay deserve, a strong men are all the same. They've never been there and in their arrogance and bigotry, they presume to know better than the people who toiled, suffered, and died so that they could forever remove themselves from the yoke of tyranny in all it's forms.
For all these "pundits" protestations of righteousness and intelligence, they advocate solutions that were it uttered by anyone else would rightly condemn them to shame and embarassment as the world see them as the undemocratic and draconian elitists they really are. They speak of freedom and prosperity yet would deny it to those who long yearned for it. They preach mercy and justice yet advocate actions strikingly similar to those we have constantly condemned as evil and Godless.
The only way we could lose the WOT is if we cave in to the defeatists among us. Those who have no faith in their fellow man. Those who lied day and night about what is happening in the fields of conflict. Those who believe they are better than anyone else. Those who are so conceited as to question others with vastly more information and intelligence from the battlegrounds of the WOT.
But even losing the WOT will not be the worse fate. Will America be subjugated under Islamofascism? Of course not. Our "masters" still want to rule. In fact, death at the hands of Islamofascists may pale in comparison to the communist state many of those preaching defeat envision for us.
Sadly, we are NOT winning the war on terror. The American people just forfeited the war on terror by electing a congress that will stop funding the war on terror and make illegal, all of the tools needed to win that war...
We are not finished losing soldiers, but we are finished fighting this war in any serious fashion....
Wish there was a single reason to share your optimism.