A large minority of Americans now believes the U.S. is losing the war on terrorism. Do you think they're right?

In the immortal words of John Paul Jones, "We have not yet begun to fight". Remember his ship was sinking and his colors struck away by canon shot when he was asked. Also remember, he won...

SP5 Mark Kuzinski I think we are on target, we have to be vigilant as a nation and aggressive on Homeland Security to defeat terrorism IMO.

Terror is a means to an end.. it was employed by the KKK, groups like the Red Army Faction and it it ultimately failed. It was also employed by Irish Republicans and the Stern gangs of Israel and it was successful enough that Israel and Ireland are both independent nations, largely because of terror campaigns waged on their behalf.

Now we face terror at the hands of Islamic extremists and far right groups within our country. Whether it's someone shooting up an abortion clinic or trying to take down a Federal building in Oklahoma City, or flying planes into the word trade center or shooting up gay clubs the nature of those attacks has clearly changed. Instead of organized groups pulling off large scale operations in the US, we have lone wolves who having adopted Islamic extremist or other extremist ideologies going after soft targets.

The shift in threat from organized groups to lone wolves highlights two things. First, it shows that we have been effective in shutting down organized terror groups here in the US. Second, it shows that terrorism is something that can not ever be completely eliminated.