The War on Terror: A Tragedy of Errors - Why It's Time to Cut Our Losses and Run

This is the truth about the War on Terror as I understand it: There really is no such thing as a "war on terror."

Terrorism is not the sort of thing that you can fight a war against. Wars are generally waged between two or more nations to settle a dispute over the ownership of resources or to resolve ideological conflicts. National leaders send armies to fight to the death or until the leaders decide to call it quits. Then one side formally admits defeat, the terms of surrender are negotiated, a peace treaty is signed, everyone shakes hands, and the fighting comes to an abrupt halt. Unlike in a video game, however, none of the soldiers who died in the preceding days, months, or years are restored to life at the end of the war. Lost and mangled limbs remain lost and mangled, and the nightmarish memories of war's horrors are not erased from the survivors' minds before they are returned in damaged condition to their families.