Is US winning its war on terror?

It's becoming increasingly true that the War in Iraq had nothing to do with rounding up terrorists. Nothing has been found there. The regime of Saddam Hussein was a secular one, unlike Osama bin Laden's reign of terror which is driven by religious fervor. They had very little, most likely nothing, to do with each other.

The real War on Terror is one we simply can't win. Like the War on Drugs, the War on Terror is inherently faulty because the grounds on which it is based is faulty. Just as drug abuse is a symptom of social problems, terrorism is a symptom of political and ideological struggles. If you don't cure the disease, you'll always have symptoms.

If the US government wants to eradicate terrorism (which is impossible), they would stop blindly supporting Israel, and they would let the UN take charge of rebuilding Iraq. UN is no good at picking or breaking fights, but they can clean up after one.

It's two years after 9/11. With all of the hemming and hawing, the loss of rights, the obfuscating wars, the color codes, and the increased surveillance, I still don't feel safe. After an event like 9/11, I'll never feel safe. I still think we could do better.

Ann Coulter will tell you that I'm anti-America. She's wrong. I'm very pro-America. I'm all for free enterprise, but we have to make sure we support the "free" part of that, not the "enterprise" part of that. I'm all for liberating oppressed peoples, but we need to liberate the ones in our backyard and in our overseas employ first in order to gain the trust of those who have been brainwashed by evil dictators. I'm all for stopping terrorists, but let's capture them and not spread our armies and resources thin all over the world (nor cut the pay of the soldiers risking their lives).

I appreciate this point made by the article:

Now that [al-Qaeda] has been scattered across the world it has been likened to a hornet's nest hit with a stick. The hornets are everywhere and harder to catch.

I'll take this apt metaphor one step further. What was once a hive could easily become a swarm. And everyone knows that once you start swatting in all directions, that's when you get stung.