"Victory in Terror War Has Many Meanings"

WASHINGTON (AP) - The war on terror might eventually be won, depending on one's definition of winning. Victory might mean a drop in the number of terror attacks, or a drop in the death tolls they inflict. But almost no one foresees a complete end to terror tactics that have succeeded in getting attention for Islamic extremists and others.

Witness the Middle East, for example. President Bush ignited a continuing controversy early this week by saying he doesn't think the war is winnable; then he reversed himself, saying flatly that it is.

The truth is probably more nuanced, say experts on the military, Islam and international issues.

And though Bush asserted that the United States is winning now, there's wide disagreement on that as well.

http://apnews1.iwon.com/article/20040902/D84RCITO0.html

...then we must be losing. From where I sit it seems that there are MORE terrorist attacks today than there were in March 2003 and the start of the Iraq war.

Call me crazy, call me a madcap, but it seems that we are losing the war on 'terra' by that standard.

Or are they suggesting, (laughably), that "winning" is a drop in terror attacks on US soil?

What a bunch of maroons.