I mean, this whole "War on Terror" nonsense was exposed as a complete fraud once the U.S. government p!ssed away thousands of U.S. lives and hundreds of billions of dollars to install a new government in Iraq under which Islam is established as the official state religion . . . while the radical Islamic government in Saudi Arabia, which has long been one of the world's biggest supporters of Islamic terrorism, remains untouched.
I will say in hindsight, it appears the big winner in all of this is Iran.
If we took this war seriously, we would have engaged in assassination where ever we found these people. We would have unleashed the CIA to do their thing.
This would have let them know that no matter where they are in any country, they will die.
The closest thing we have to this is the drones which have turned out to be one of the most successful tools of this war.