I'm glad you're not in charge my friend, you would have sprung the trap before the rat even got in the room. I know you're frustrated, and that goes to you love of country.  I run hot and cold at times too, but ask yourself this, considering the complexity of the battle being waged, if you were the military planner, and you only had one shot to capture all the rats, how would you play it. Every time I get a defeatist attitude, I stop and think, and maybe read up on my Sun Tzu, and I realize what I see is a perfectly executed strategy.  Plus consider this, that the absolute worse thing that can happen is you, me, and every other patriot will get to die defending our freedom, and that's not a bad way to go.  For a long time I feared I would die a meaningless death, thank for for the times.