The War on Terror

I have been thinking about the "war on terror" today. Who is really winning? The terrorists certainly aren't you can't win when you are dead. The Middle East isn't, look at Afghanistan and Iraq. We certainly aren't, check out the Patriot act and other fear inspired legislation in the western world (I am specifically speaking of US/UK). So who is winning?

We have government sponsored torture camps; didn't we use that as a justification to bomb Iraq back into the Bronze Age?

Our governments spy on us and increasingly have more power to ignore our rights. Didn't we use that as justification to attack Afghanistan?

We segregate our own society, Saddam may have picked on the Kurds but we are picking on anyone of Arabic/Persian decent.

Our freedoms are being eroded. Our governments are quickly becoming our enemy, and more than when I was a young egoistical idealist of an anarchist I believe it and have reason for believing it.

The people winning are those that want to control western people and control what we think and what we buy. Not the Islamic idealists that continually throw themselves at us in a hopeless Jihad. The Christian conservatives that think we have to many freedoms and that we are dreadfully out of line are the ones getting what they want. And I think that scares me most of all....