Do you really think that we can "win" this war? The war on terror is the same as the war on crime. It will never be won.
If you want to call it the war on radical Islam go right ahead. It doesn't matter. Crime is not an entity either but we still wage war against it. Radical Islam is not an entity either, it's a mindset. So we're having a war against a mindset if that makes you happy.
As soon as one terrorist group is defeated another one will pop up. This war is ongoing and will never end. It is the state of the world from now on. We don't have a country to defeat. There is no way to define total victory only victory in battles.
As far as not having a strategy, I think that if you and I believe that there has been ongoing activity against these groups then there has been a strategy all along.
ISIS may have been around for a while, in fact they are actually an offshoot of al-Qaeda, but I don't think that anyone believed that they would become so powerful.
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