Anyone who thinks we can engage the terrorist organizations and win is thinking foolishly. We do not have the weapons ro the patience to fight this war. Within 6 months to a year people will begin questioning the expenditure and effort. Soon after the Secretary for Homeland Defense will become just another figurehead of a political appointment used to reward campaign contributors.

Consider what we have and what we are up against. We have aircraft carriers full of high speed fighters and cruise missles. Have you seen the pictures of what the enemy has? They have some mud huts and barracks in a desert somewhere. If there are any offices or storage areas they are mixed in among the city buildings. So we blow up a few tn barracks. The people scatter out into the hills and villages and just wait for us to get tired. In the meantime we blow up a few military installations belonging to the host countries and kill a few innocent civilians and suddenly we have bred a whole new crop of potential terrorists.

We cannot win this with guns and bombs. We cannot use violence to defeat these people. There must be a better way.