pdc,

In answer to the situation covered in your first paragraph - Repeal the legislation. The situation though is highly unlikely IMO - terrorist threats will not end, they will vary in intensity, sophistication and in scale, but the trend will be diminishing.

In reality the scenario you describe, albeit inaccurately, in your second paragraph is more likely to prove to be the case. I say inaccurately because it is not just Bush, or the United States of America's "war on terrorism", it is international (Review the list of terrorist organisations on the State Department's List - many have no link to actions/aspirations that threaten the USA), it should be the business of the United Nations. The only problem is that they have never really been known for acting with resolve on any issue - due mainly to the fact that all member states always tend to put self-interest first.

In the interim, the level of co-operation between the various intelligence and security agencies world-wide will have improved - They already are a thousand times better than they were prior to 11th September, 2001. The monitoring operations, that so many object to, will cause those wishing to finance and support terror to alter the means by which they conduct their business, it will become increasingly harder for them. Look where their most recent strikes have been, in what you describe as "the so-called ongoing war", Saudi Arabia and Turkey (Muslim countries; muslim fatalities) - The message is clear no-where is safe. It is a war nothing "so-called" about it.

Undoubtedly the USA; UK; Australia; et al, will suffer an attack - my bet is that due to the legislation put in place, combined with the improvement in international co-operation, those attacks, when they come, will be on a much smaller scale (we already know about one such planned attack on the USA that was completely averted).