Originally Posted by astralis

bluesman,



wouldn't it be possible to say that this is a war where things MAY and probably WILL happen to us, but that we will never lose?

this is much like when the japanese struck pearl harbor- the greater the tactical victory, the worse their strategic defeat as you enrage the american people and ensure that it is a fight to the finish.

look at it this way: the fall of the towers and the pentagon was exchanged for the elimination of most of al-qaeda, the invasion and occupations of both afghanistan and iraq.

now if any goddam' terrorist, and let us say he is iranian, strikes the US with a nuke, for some reason i highly doubt the US public would call for anything but turning the whole of iran into radioactive dust. as you see, the harder the terrorists strike, the stronger the national will of the US, which you correctly point out to be a major problem in our implementation of the WoT. so either way...this is a war we're going to win.