The war on terror is rapidly becoming like the war on drugs: Interminable, unwinnable, ill-defined, counterproductive, and ultimately a catch-all for any actions we want to take as a country.

You cannot stop all individuals who wish to do harm to others, and do not care if they themselves survive the effort, from doing harm. It isn’t possible. If the bechmark for measuring success in the “war on terror” is no more terrorist attacks, then we have defined the terms of victory in a way that would allow any single individual on the planet to deny us an end to this.

This is insanity. You can’t win a thing when there is no achievable goal defined.