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Cyrus there is one thing you are forgetting. The ETA and IRA had/have concrete objectives which could ostensibly be solved through negotiation etc. The Palestinian problem, to some degree, the same (hopefully)

Jihad Warriors however have no meetable goals or objectives. Nothing will satisfy them but expulsion of all infidels from Arab lands and purification of their holy soil and institution of Sharia and restoration of the Caliphate and the spread and pre-eminence of Islamic Theocracy. In keeping with all of this is their burning desire to DESTROY the West, the land of the Infidels and the source of the corruption of Islamic virtues and Islamic women (not to mention the source of the ideas which give Islamic women to consider that maybe they oughtn't to be so oppressed in their native lands--which itself is strong heresy of another important sort to many Arab men of those lands).

So yes, Cyrus, GWB is right: this war will be endless as long as there are Islamic Jihadist Kooks running loose over the face of the Earth who believe that killing infidels and forcing the world to be subjugated to Islam is Allah's will.