re: ISIS and Taliban have declared Jihad against themselves

quote:

---

We defeated the Nazis and the Japanese COMBINED in four years. How anyone can still believe that we haven't been able to beat a bunch of thugs over a 14-year period (and counting) is beyond me.

---

The "we" you refer to during World War II was the combined might of most of the free world whose countries total resolve was focused on victory against conventional forces. So to answer you the victory came about only after around three percent of the total world population was killed and two atomic warheads detonated for good measure.
Russia sustained a loss of 30 percent of its total resources, Great Britain essentially bankrupted and the U.S. Spent roughly 300 billion 1940 dollars funding it.
So by comparison the 500 thousand a day Halliburton is pulling down is a drop in the bucket.