As also is the absurdity of pretending that a "war on terrorism" can eliminate all terrorism, more especially when the prosecution of this war itself includes a range of terrorist activities.

I think that may be getting onto one of my fears. I may be wrong and stand to get called an idiot but I sort of believe there are 2 levels of terrorism. The first are people with perhaps even questionable motives, the second to put it crudely are more idiots sensing an injustice and choosing a very wrong way to go about it.

The problem I see is that while cases are made for injustices, more and more people will get sucked into this awful game. To add to that, we have cases where people probably genuinely do believe there is a special place in heaven for murder or that they are saving the world by commiting horrific acts. IMO, there will always be new recruits.