This is a sobering article. And there's not really an end in sight to the "war on terror", since it cannot actually be won. I fear for the nation, especially since it is a point of doctrine among the current majority party that the choice to engage in warfare in the middle east was the absolute correct decision.
In the end, the military-media-industrial complex got exactly what it's always wanted: the end of war-time and peace-time and just having a perpetual war with anywhere they can apply a nebulous term. Around 2006, I still had hope that this would be over soon or world powers would intervene at some point, but I was pretty naive back then. Now I know we'll never fight another conventional war and we'll never leave the middle east. The powers maintaining it are too strong and too rich.