[jaguar]

*laughs.

You're still thinking in the padigram of conventional warfare. Declaring war is easy enough, so is killing some bad guys, declaring peace however is a touch more difficult, you won't see columns of surrendering officers marching down the streets of bagdhad at the 'end' of this conflict. You're also still a touch stuck in an economic period that was well over before we were born, every nation is interdependant in thousands of different ways and as time goes on only more and more so. The real threat to your SUV fuel bill and mortgage comes from the US deficit and the spectre of the collapse of fiat currency.