Some people in the west (who have no love for the government like Ed Griffin) have suggested that the US administration has no intention of ending the war on terror globally. They want endless war because it keeps Americans at home distracted, it gives the government more power (using the threat of terrorism as a pretext), and it keeps their economy going. If the government stopped its wars and spending all this money on weapons....the money would go towards social projects like schools, hospitals etc. and that would make Americans too comfortable....American elites would lose their elitist power.....so wars help maintain the hierarchy and inequality in America. Also the big debt problems they face also need wars so they can keep printing the dollars and destroying them in war...when a hundred thousand dollar missile is exploded that money has kept the armed forces employed. If and when all the people in the armed forces return home and have no wars to fight...it will increase the ranks of the unemployed and their damaged psychologies will mean they might do crazy things in America. America is a sad country....it should have stayed at home instead of invading other countries and creating problems for itself. Its government system has not served the American people, instead it has served the ruling elites who control the corporations who profit from war.