Let me explain.....
See? Korea and Vietnam showed the MIC that going to war against a conceptual enemy could actually be better than fighting against nation-states, particularly from a sustainability perspective. ''Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace.'' That sort of thing. If they could only get the rubes to buy into it! Turns out they could! And it was easy!
But like its sister and brother wars, the Poverty War and the Drug War, The War On Terror War is never meant to be won per se. Won enough to keep spirits up that we're ''winning and will not be bowed.'' (USA! USA!) But making the ''enemies of the state'' enough of a continuing threat to our personal safety to justify demanding 60% of the national budget against people whose main occupation before their family got Droned by mistake, was farming.
The better way to see it all is that these ''Wars Against'' are income generating concepts that use Fear and Income reward/deprivation as its leverage. Since the beneficiaries of these ''Wars Against'' are the same people who screw the rest of the world from Wall Street -- and who own most of ''our'' politicians -- are afforded preferential tax positions (meaning paying none), the right of self-regulation, legal personhood (sans the blood-letting parts), and your own group of lawyers (Congress) to make it all tidy and so-called ''legal.''
- It's sort of like art, only with boring politicians who paint by numbers (only where they're told). Oh, and who lack any morals whatsoever.....
K&R