The war on terror is over. Terror has won. The people of America are terrified. Osama bin laden has successfully dragged U.S. into conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq(there would be no war if not for 9/11), ISIS(who appeared from power vacuum left by U.S.) and Syria. U.S. has spent trillions fighting wars and maintaining bureaucracies' expansions that feed on the terror of the American people, and in return through security theatre further encourage this terror. U.S. is in a positive terror feedback loop. It is a kind of hell the U.S. nation state will never escape.

On the plus side, where the end is coming into sight, so is a new beginning.