[ex-snook]

The war on both Blitzkreig and Kamikaze took only 4 years to end. Enemies armed with a lot more than car bombs. But then again there was an all-out effort with the draft, rationing, war bonds and Rosie the Riveter in factories. And of course Generals like Patton who would have kicked Gingrich's ass [if he was in uniform] for such a suggestion.

[Americanexpat]

He could be right about it taking so long.

When we fought countries like Germany and Japan we could bomb them and invade them with troops on the ground until they surrendered.

Terrorists like Al Quedia and others have no centralized government we can fight. They have an ideology and we have to defeat that first. That is hard to do when that ideology and the cult of death is fed to them from their mothers teat and taught to them in the home, schools and mosques all their lives.

We can destroy Iraq, Syria, Iran and Saudi Arabia, but it is much harder to fight this ideology.

[sportutegrl]

The war on both Blitzkreig and Kamikaze took only 4 years to end. Enemies armed with a lot more than car bombs. If we didn't have our hands tied by the MSM, liberal protesters, etc., we could win this war in 4 years. If we didn't have to tiptoe around enemy combatants dressed as civilians, if we could bomb mosques that are full of combatants and artillery, if we could use coersive techniques to get intelligence data from captured combatants, If the MSM wouldn't smear us in the press for civilian casualities when the combatants are using civilians as cover, If, If, If. We could win in a weekend.