Of course as in the Cold War this is fraught with difficulties and will todays potential allies be tomorrows potential enemies.
Questions raised are :
Will the regional allies be Democratic or dictatorships.
Will American troops find them self's shoring up unstable or dictatorial governments.
And will surgical strikes be enough will there be a need for more boots on the ground on a semi permanent occupation.
Is this the permanent war as envisaged by George Orwell in Big Brother.
The history of mankind is nothing but the chronology of permanent war. That's what the liberals have never understood.
Consiering that mankind has always been in a state of war, in one form or another, not this is not Orwell's permanent stae of warfare.
Orwell's war was ideological, but was not waged as a matter of opposing IDEOLOGIES (his three super-states all had the same ideology). Orwell described war as the means by which the planned economy was sustained (no surpluses to upset the applecart), and the use war as a means of controlling the population AT HOME (the direction in which Red China is headed).
THIS war (the global war on terror), at it's most basic, has very little to do with ideology, but everything to do with CULTURE.
Nothing Orwellian (in a 1984 sense) about it.