"Capturing and punishing perpetrators has always been the way to go"
No really Steve
The "way to go" is to find the causes of it and work out if, as a nation, our own behavior hasn't been and still is a part of it.
Isis is a monster of our own creation, we created the vacuum that nurtured it and the hatred of all the faithful of the religion it claims to be acting on behalf of continues to feed it and create bigger and more widespread vacuums.
Al is right about the Birmingham Six - what a coup for the extremists it would have been if the authorities had strung them up!
Fanatics like Isis thrive on martyrdom
Jim Carroll