War does not care for the arbitrary timelines of man.  

The fifth anniversary of Marines and Soldiers crossing the berm from Kuwait into Iraq is treated as a news subject only because we humans tend to measure things in such terms.

As Cormac McCarthy wrote in the 'Blood Meridian':

"It makes no difference what men think of war, said the judge. War endures. As well ask men what they think of stone. War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner. That is the way it was and will be. That way and not some other way."

A war is a competition between the wills of humans.  There are no rules, no boundaries, no timekeepers or even scorekeepers.  It is a struggle until one side yields to other.  To pretend otherwise only protracts the war.

The United State's war in Iraq did not begin in March of 2003.  The United State's war with Mohammanden Jihadists did not start on September 11th, 2001.

The United States was barely a Nation when in 1785, Tripoli's ambassador to England, Abdrahaman informed John Adams that Tripoli and the U.S. were at war.

Abdrahaman further informed Adams that a treaty could be purchased and warned that, according to David McCullough, "A war between Christian and Christian was mild, prisoners were trated with humanity; but warned his Excellency, a war between Muslim and Christian would be horrible."

Abdrahman's justification for a state of war?  The Koran.

"It was written in their Koran, that all nations which had not acknowledged the Prophet were sinners, whom it was the right and duty of the faithful to plunder and enslave."

The U.S. paid the Jizyah and submitted to commercial dhimmitude.

Peace, did not endure, and by 1805 U.S. Marines were fighting on the shores of Tripoli.

The U.S.'s war with Mohammedan Jihadism began more than 223 years ago and continues to this day--only the location has moved from the shores of the Mediterranean to the banks of the Euphrates and Tigris.

The five year mark on one location of a multi-century war could only come from the post-modern Western mind.  Our enemies do not see their struggle in terms of years, but an outcome--the final day, the return of the Mahdi when all humanity has submited to Sharia law.

This war will endure and cares little of what the post-modern liberal thinks of it or how little they think of the ultimate practitioners who stand between us and enslavement.

Five years have past, two-hundred years have past and more will pass until one side yields and submits to the other.

I will not submit.

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