That is a hard pill for many to swallow, especially brainwashed, delusional Americans like theking, but it's the painful truth.
When your wife and 10 year old daughter are getting their tits and hooch groped at the airport to board a plane, while you stand there watching, unable to say a word about it, the "terrorists" not only won, but they knocked it out of the fucking park.
So what we drop bombs on them in return, they still won on an epic level. We can bomb them to rubble and dust, but they still turned the world, especially the USA, into a police state, CCTV and drone having, fear zone.
Muslim extremists are in this for the long haul. The western world is not, nor do they even understand what that means. In the end, way down the line, Muslims win globally. And every one the western world kills or wrongly imprisons, his martyrdom breeds more extremists willing to die for the cause. You can't win against an enemy like that.