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What if the War on Terror is fundamentally impossible to win? When the Bush Administration claims that the War on Terror is being fought against a "new" type of enemy, this is correct. And it's also, potentially, a cataclysmic problem. For a war to end, you need a standard of victory. In this piece, "standard of victory" will be defined as "an event or series of events that needs to transpire in order for one to declare victory". In conventional wars, like the World Wars, the standard of victory is defined as the opposing side negotiating the terms of its surrender, and holding to those te...