Make no mistake: we will win, and groups like ISIL will lose.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
As long as ISIS is not overtly losing, they'll continue to be perceived as winners.
What will eventually cause the defeat of ISIL is that it will collapse under its own contradictions, frankly. When the populations in which it tries to maneuver realize that that ideology is not to their future benefit.
To ISIS and others: We will defeat you.
We must win in Iraq. If we withdraw, there will be chaos; there will be genocide; and they will follow us home.
The Iraqis who have risen up against the occupation are not 'insurgents' or 'terrorists' or 'The Enemy.' They are the revolution, the Minutemen, and their numbers will grow - and they will win.
Victory is the only option. And we will be victorious in Iraq.
I'm optimistic because I'm pragmatic: Neither of the two sides, the military government nor the Islamic front, is capable of winning. If they continue to fight, they will both bleed to death.
The Obama administration seems to have lost the will to win. The terrorists have not.
All Iraqis can unite to defeat terrorism and can unite to rebuild the country.
We have to face the fact that ISIS and its army of like-minded jihadists are determined to win that war and believe they are on the path to victory. They may well be right.