What part of failure don't you understand?

On September 11, 2001 a group of primarily Saudi Arabian citizens who were also members of the terrorist group known as al Qaeda, at the direction of Osama Bin Laden, a Saudi citizen also, flew airplanes into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania killing thousands of American citizens.   Since that event al Qaeda has exploded bombs all over the world killing thousands more innocent people in places like London and Madrid while carrying out kidnappings and assassinations.
 
As of December, 2005 and January 20, 2006, Osama Bin Laden is still an at large terrorist, apparently still directing his terrorist organization and now, thanks to our president, terrorists are playing in the big sand box in Iraq and killing and wounding thousands of Americans, Iraqis, and various other nationalities respectively.
 
Yesterday Osama released another audio taped message.  It is obvious that he is still alive and controlling his organization and is still making threats against the United States and   immediately after the tape was released the president's mouth piece stepped up to the podium in the Whitehouse to announce we are winning the war on terror.
 
Well Scotty I don't know how to break this to you but first you can't fight a war with terrorism, that's the first thing, and second, if you could and you were you ain't winin'.   Now sooner or later, Scotty and Mr. President you are going to probably get lucky and someone will capture or find Osama Bin Laden dead.  This will most likely be by pure accident and when that happens we can say we got lucky but we can also say it isn't because you've done anything right.
 
Now yesterday evening I was watching Chris Matthews as he interviewed Senator Joseph Biden.  I don't know why I was watching the show because I think Matthews has become just another shill for the Whitehouse but never the less I was watching the program and you know what?  They don't get it.  Matthews was too busy defending this bumbling president and calling Michael Moore names and Biden was once again pontificating on a subject he apparently doesn't understand because if he did he would have been pointing out that we are not winning the war on terror instead of trying to do psychoanalysis on Bin Laden for the entertainment of Matthews and the cable news junkies.
 
Now let me tie all of this together for you.
On September 11, 2001 a foreign terrorist group called al Qaeda based out of Afghanistan attacked the United States.
The United States responded initially by identifying the terrorists and invading Afghanistan in order to find and destroy the terrorist and the government supporting them.
For personal, ideological, and monetary reasons the President of the United States ordered the American military to invade a country that had absolutely nothing to do with either the attacks on the United States or al Qaeda.
Iraq and the war there now serve as a training ground for al Qaeda and have cost the lives of thousands of Americans and Iraqis with the numbers mounting daily.
The monetary cost of the war in Iraq is nearing $2 trillion dollars for the American taxpayers.
The head of al Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden, is still alive and at large and making threats against the United States.
The Taliban are a reemerging force in Afghanistan with violence in that country escalating.
Drug production and exporting in Afghanistan is at an all time high and much of the country is still controlled by war lords.
Iraq is in chaos with a collapsing and virtually totally destroyed infrastructure, with unemployment hovering around 70%, hospitals operating under primitive conditions, electricity on for only a few hours a day, and oil production near zero.
Al Qaeda is using Iraq as a training ground for terrorist.
The President of the United States is using the war on terror to justify eavesdropping on the communications American citizens.
The President of the United States is using the war on terror to justify torturing enemy combatants.
 
In my humble professional military opinion this is not victory.  Or simply put Mr. President, What part of failure don't you understand.
 
Those Are The Sergeant Majors Thoughts On That.