No reality is we are not at war, we have merely placed our young men and women in a battlefield to be shot at, while letting the enemies take refuge all over the world. Turn loose the powers we have on the enemies and we will then be in a war, of short duration.
Remember Korea
Remember Vietnam...
Compare the outcome at Dresden to Faluja then come back on this thread and talk about war.
Foolishness. Two complete different eras (in more ways then I have time to list) and two complete different wars.
The WOT/Iraq is a completely different enemy. Furthermore we lost well over 200,000 men in WWII (for example). We have loss less then 4000 to actual combat in all of the WOT and as a nation we can hardly take those casualties figures.
The notion that we are allowing refuge all over the world isn't exactly accurate either. We have guys risking all, taking the fight to our enemies throughout the ME, Asia and the Horn of Africa.
I will say I can understand your sentiment to a point...but on the whole this is simply a different era, different war. Best regards.