Do we require a victory or a Triumph?

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Is a "Triumph" even possible in a small war? How does one win a war of ideas when the enemy's idea does not have a genuine physical manifestation and is not bound by a nation or a single person, a la the Soviet Union or Osama bin Laden?

I question whether "the world" as a whole can stop the ideas of radical Islam. I would submit that this is principally an intra-Muslim struggle which is bound up in the Arab Muslim world's demographic and political struggle between the forces of reform and tradition. Solutions imposed from outside will be rejected in the long run, but ideas from the outside filtered and interpreted by Muslims themselves can be decisive.

This process will be ongoing for decades.