What comes after the Long War?

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Each war’s end produces an iconic visual. World War II had “The Kiss” — a nurse and sailor in lip-locked celebration at Times Square. Vietnam had a far different final image — the last helicopter lifting off the roof of the U.S. Embassy in Saigon.

What visual will come to symbolize the end of the Long War on terrorism? After all, it can be argued that the conflict is over.

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