the true conservative:

What does victory look like? I suppose I did not use the best analogies.

So answer the question. What does victory look like? A world in which Muslims exist, but are unable to commit acts of terrorism? How? There are always going to be public areas. There are always going to be explosives.

the true conservative:

But those military victories, as crucial as they were, did not bring about, on their own, a dicisive victory against our enemies. Even the collapse of the Soviet Union did not bring this conflict to an end. Because ideological communism is not restricted to one nation or empire.

So is your position that the Cold War is still going on? As you say, ideological communism is not restricted to one nation or empire - look at Cuba, China (sort of), several South American countries. So, how can the Cold War ever be won? Theortical ideas generally don't die, so the idea that the government should control property and means of production can never be defeated. How can the Cold War ever be won?

And how can a War on Terror ever be won? How can we achieve a state of being in which no one was the ability to perpetrate an act of terrorism?

the true conservative:

But what military intervention can do is eliminate governing authorities that allow terrorist activity to go on unimpeded and that often outright support such activities.

You mean like the State of Florida?

"I want to learn to use this jet simulator ... but I don't need to learn how to take off and land. Just teach me how to fly it around and aim it at things. And I want to pay in cash."

And they say, "sure, fill out this form and have a seat."

They didn't need any [heavy organ music] Terrorist Training Camp to accomplish that.