"Ridge: Terror war likely to last decades," from [1] AP:

PITTSBURGH - Former Homeland Security chief Tom Ridge, speaking at the opening of a new RAND Corp. office, said the war on terror is likely to last for decades, much like the Cold War.

"For every (Osama) bin Laden, there's a bin Laden wannabe. And for every al-Qaida, there's a like organization," Ridge said Wednesday in Pittsburgh.

And why is that, exactly? Perhaps because their ideology continues to be spread and perpetuated within Islamic communities? Oh, we can't talk about that, now, can we?