Unfortunately, you are probably being too optimistic. We've been looking for Bin Laden for years (not as hard as now) and we haven't found him. The Israelis are very good at antiterrorism, and haven't stopped it. They couldn't even stop it in Lebanon (next door); in a similar situation in the U.S. in 1914, we couldn't find Pancho Villa in Mexico. My opinion is that every day no U.S. city is destroyed by a nuke, is a partial victory, and that's the best we can hope for.
There can be no final victory over terrorism, until all nations (and all minorities within them) have a stake in the Global Village Status Quo. At the moment, about 4 billion don't. A per capita income of 3000$ (not including the elites), an infant mortality rate less than 20/1000, a 95% literacy rate, these things at a bare minimum are required before final victory is possible. This might, just might, happen by the time my grandchildren (not born yet) are old. Until then, the war goes on and on and on. |
