No we cannot "win" a battle against religious fanaticism.
I've been against this decade long crusade based on beliefs of fiscal conservatism and the precious lives of our young men and women.

As I said in another thread, I watched a friend bury his son on Sunday, one of the most heart wrenching afternoons of my life.
When you watch a father take a shovel and with tears running down his cheeks throw that first load of dirt on his son, well it brings this whole middle eastern clusterf*ck home in a way that newspapers, & tv cannot convey.

While there are some fat cat defense contractors that profited heavily from these wars, I do not believe that Bush and Cheney are so evil as to plot an eternal war for profit.
I think that they thought that we would have this mess mopped up in short order with our "legendary super power weaponry", much like we did in the first Iraq invasion.
I think there is a just a tad of partisan hatred skewing thoughts to the contrary.