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In war, can there be such a thing as a victory that comes too cheap? Of course not: A victory in which not a single American life is lost should be the ideal. It's true, however, that an easy victory can sometimes have damaging consequences. After 9/11, did the seeming ease with which we defeated al-Qaeda and its Taliban landlords persuade Americans that the war on terrorism was basically over? And have we lost our sense of purpose as a result?
We can perhaps judge this more clearly if we go back beyond the Afghan campaign to the weeks immediately following September 11. At that time, the U.S. benefited from the strong popular reactions to the terrorist attacks ...