It's not a belief, it's a concept. Got it. And you fight it by killing the people that subscribe to it.
Can you point out a concept that has been defeated by killing people who believe in it? Ever?
What is the difference between concept & belief that is earth-shakingly important in the context of this thread?
You claim we fight it by killing those who subscribe to it ...... then ask what concept has been defeated by killing those same people. This is a little bizarre and contradictory, to me.
So you can't kill concepts and beliefs. There are still new Nazis around despite Patton's, Eisenhower's, and FDR's best efforts, but no one says they are a threat to us. You can still buy Hitler's Mein Kampf in bookstores (well, not in Germany maybe) but few worry about it and consider it only a historical artifact of a brutal dictator.
These guys live in tents and caves. They don't own things that are all that valuable. We can't destroy their industry or their economy. What is there for us to break that will impact them?
Haven't you ever heard of the bromide that the "purpose of an army is to kill the enemy & break their things?"
I guess not.
Obviously if AQ doesn't have an industrial complex you can't bomb it into oblivion, but you can still kill the people.
Surely you don't need my feeble input to figure that amazingly difficult concept.
How do we know that this has happened?
Certainly there must be someone up in military intel....somewhere....state dept. (Ack!) that can recognize the end of a war when he(she) sees it. How did we know WW2 was over? Right, that little shindig aboard that battleship in Tokyo Bay.
I believe there will be some tell, IMHO. I don't know what it is.
Not that it matters, our illustrious Leader, Obama, has declared victory and is going to save the day by returning our soldiers home in the not too distant future.
So the Commander in Chief says this is what we are fighting. You disagree. Clearly, what you say goes.
The cmdr in chief was engaging in something called
rhetoric. I was
not engaging in something called rhetoric .... though I might as well have been for all the good it does me here.
P.S.; the Commander-in-Chief is a boob.
Er... What?
You are constantly answering a question I did not ask and completely ignoring a question I did ask, several times.
Once again:HOW DO WE KNOW WHEN TO STOP FIGHTING?
Jehovah God will send his only begotten Son down from Heaven to instruct us when the fighting will stop.
Seriously, dealt with that one above.
I wonder if Patton knew when "the fighting would stop"? I mean....someone gave him a date certain?
Oooooops, there I go with that WW2 stuff again, gotta watch that.
Because we all know we can't ever learn a thing from history, right?