It's not about "winning"

One point Schneier either doesn’t yet get or avoids mentioning when he says “Our politicians help the terrorists every time they use fear as a campaign tactic” is that the aims of the terrorists and our politicians are frequently aligned: both want us scared. Neither wants the other gone because politicians who don’t push fear on their subjects would negate the efforts of the terrorists and without terrorists how would the fearmongering politicians keep expanding their power? The War on Terror is not just a war they can’t win, it’s a war they don’t want to win.

No, they don't want to win it and they won't til they're
bankrupt.

They are.

Read.