Even if both Iraq and Afghanistan became as stable as Canada, the GWOT would be far from over. (How's the War on Drugs going?)
I personally don't think it has anything to do with anything anymore. The idea of the world banding together to fight terrorism is a bit of a spectre now, I think.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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