Winning the war?

[M]

Since the early '80s, the beating heart of modern terrorism has been in Tehran, or rather Qom. Until there is a regime change their- one way or another- terrorism will not be defeated. Note the following victories in the war on terror are significant:

Toppling the Taliban
Preventing Al Qaeda from trasferring en masse to Somalia
Victory over Hussein
Defection of Sudan and Yemen (in 2001) to anti-terror coalition, and now apparently Libya as well
Capture of Saddam
Stepping up activities in Afghan interior
Weakening of terrorists in Colombia and Phillipines

On the other hand, note the following failures:

Failure to weaken/isolate Arafat
Failure to capture OBL and Al-Zawahri, yet
Failure to hurt Hezbollah's operational and training base in the Beqaa Valley, Lebanon
Failure to stop Syria from sponsoring terror by peaceful means
Failure to halt Iranian Nuke program (this one really creeps me out)
Failure to either create regime change in Korea, eliminate their WMD, or at least cut them off from suppliying MidEast rogues like Iran
Failure to stop Iran from gaining effective control of Al Qaeda and PLO activities (combine this with Hezbollah, and they have a virtual monopoly on powerful terror groups)
Failure to dissuade Saudus from quietly supporting terror

So the war is not over. The tide will most likely turn when Iran is overthrown. But the war will not end till the whole MidEast is free.

[M]

Saudi Arabia today is among the world's most oppressive and corrupt governments, they are also huge sponsors of terrorism. If they fall, it won't be to democrats, but rather to radical Islamists (Wahhabi, though, not Shi'ite. Saudi Arabia's Shi'ite population is fairly small and concentrated in the Eastern Region, where the oil field are. Most of the country is Wahhabi, a radical branch of Sunnism.)

As for Attlee, I've never understood how the Modern Cassandra could lose to the Sheep in Sheep's Clothing. Attlee, of course, immediately proceeded with what Churchill called his "unwarranted war against the Jews." See Exodus.