摘要:Al Qaeda declared war against theUnited States in 1996, and in re-sp onse to the attacks of 9/11, theUnited States went to war against alQaeda. For more than a decade, wehave witnessed an ongoing debateconcerning what kind of war this isand how best to wage this war. Wehave never really ended this debatewith satisfactory answers¡ªnot as anarmed force or as a nation. The ques-tion now, however, is this: How doesthis war end