There has been no decrease in the incidence of terrorist attacks on non-U.S. soil. And there's been precisely one less foreign terrorist attack on U.S. soil after 9/11 as there was before. Where's the measure of sucess or even progress?
And Stewartism or not, the absurdity of declaring war on a particular tactic should be self-evident. There can never be victory against a tactic.
But we might as well pour as much money into a War on "Terror" as we poured into a War on "Drugs" - because that worked out very successfully, didnt' it?
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