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The War on Terror's primary goal is to protect the US.
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Protect the US who? US soldiers? US Allies? US citizens? US companies abroad? The US has interests/citizens/soldiers/embassies all over the world last I checked.
The point is that the "War on Terror" hasn't eliminated or weakened the enemy. 911 was a watershed event, unprecedented in scale. For something like it to happen again in the following 3 years would be unlikely in the extreme. The fact that another event like 911 hasn't occurred (yet), is not proof of a successful foreign policy. Indeed, one need only take a look at whats going on in and around the world to see a climate of unprecedented hostility towards the US. This does not contribute to improved US security here or anywhere else, but to the contrary imo.