Why not? Its not PC to say so, but the only way to win is to make your enemy realize he has lost.
WWII had an enemy army in uniform.
Front lines and the rear.
This war has the enemy in regular clothes in the
Middle East, Europe, South East Asia, Russia, Africa, etc
This is a circular war. No front line, no rear.
We have to win the general population.
WE can make a parking lot out of a country only the enemy
will send missiles from another country and hit America.
Or, just like in Russia, two muslim women suicide bombers
hit the subway system in Moscow killing people yesterday.
The enemy is in the U.S. They can take out shopping centers, stadiums with 80,000 people.
Around 1900, there was a war between Uraguay and Paraguay in which the male population was reduced to under 100,000, mostly boys and old men.
In our own Civil War, Sherman and Grant came coming at the Confederates until they had to quit. Bedford Forrest, a ferocious fighter, gave up after Lee did, because he realized the futility of fighting on.
The problem is,these crazed Islamists don’t consider getting killed as a loss.The closest we ever came to a similar enemy was the Japanese and we had to kill millions of their civilians in bombing raids and use nukes to get them to see the hopelessness of their situation.