But they don't, do they? It's Orwell's perpetual war. Shrub senior got within cooee of Baghdad and then stopped. We see all sorts of sophisticated weapons on documentaries, but they can't wipe out the desert rabble in Afghanistan. Rather, the desert rabble won again (par for the course for the last 2,400 years). The very borders of the ME were drawn up by Sykes and Picot to ensure it never would be stable. It's all part of the great game. If we get sucked in, we become part of it.
