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Originally Posted by nitehawk
the united states is fighting a war it can not win -- sorry to say --- all of the ships and tanks - fighter planes are antiquated - terrorism and cyber attacks is the wars of the future and the united states is not winning - i will stop now as anything else will be take down
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I would agree that we cannot win using only traditional weapons of war. We cannot bomb them into extinction and planes and tanks alone will not win this kind of war. We have entered a new age as far as waging war is concerned. Much of this war that will take place covertly. Things will happen that we will never know about. But, this has always been the case with wars. Intelligence and covert operations were also critical to winning WWI and WWII but not as much as they are today.
But, I disagree that we cannot win this war. We have access to the greatest minds and technology on the planet. We also have strong allies with this same knowledge and we are strong with traditional weapons as well as boots on the ground which will have to play some part in defeating ISIS.
I will say that you may be right in that this is a war that can never be completely won by anyone. We can destroy ISIS, we can decimate al-Qaeda, we can knock out the Taliban, but other terrorists groups will rise up to take their place. I'm afraid that the world will be in a permanent state of war from now on. It's not unlike our domestic "war on crime".
We will always be fighting crime, but we will never be totally rid of crime, but that doesn't mean that we shouldn't stop fighting crime.