Of course terrorism can never be fully defeated.
It could take time for pro-Qaddafi people to be fully defeated and rounded up.
They cannot be fully defeated without addressing their political roots, including whatever local support they enjoy.
Alexander Khryakov, a minister in the Donetsk government, told the Guardian that a "real ceasefire" would only happen when Kiev was fully defeated.
A new legal basis was required to assume supreme authority, resting on the fact that both countries had been fully defeated and lacked a government competent to maintain order.
Hugh Orde, the former chief constable in Northern Ireland, rightly says, "There is no example that I know of, of terrorism being policed out" – or fully defeated by physical force – anywhere in the world.
But neither Mr. Rumsfeld nor Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, commander of allied forces in Iraq, would declare that the allied military had fully defeated a guerrilla offensive that began with the Ramadan holy season in late October and November.
France said it would keep its contingent of about 1,000 troops in Syria for now because the Islamic State had not been fully defeated, raising the prospect of further divisions in the U.S.-organized alliance that is fighting the extremist group.
There is another moment, told in flashback, when Avram, delirious in the hospital, having been released from captivity after the war, when he was led to believe that Israel had been fully defeated, asks Ora: "Is there... Is there an Israel?" Again, the tension becomes so great that you hold your breath.
US officials have conceded that 93 air strikes in Iraq that have checked the Isis advance in the past 10 days will not deal definitively with the jihadis, and that they will have to be confronted in Syria to be fully defeated.
