Well for what its worth Teribus I disagree with you on this one. The USA is a huge place with huge borders and its full of ingenious people. The authorities would be about as successful at keeping funds and weapons in there, as they are at keeping drugs out.

I suspect there always was some sort of attempt to stop the activities of terrorists. Remember Ghadaffi was in the terrorist loop in those days, and the Yank authorities were never particular mates with him.

I'm afraid it comes down to the boring old process of getting people to jettison the idea of killing each other. That's why Thatcher with her wind up speeches (inspiring as it was to her followers) was such minus quantity. She was more bleeding trouble than Paisley and Adams put together.