Terrorism is never stopped "head on" (in the way that Bush and other world leaders insist we must try to do). It is only ever undermined.

We have sown the wind of "asymmetric warfare" and "precision bombing" and "collateral damage", so we must reap the whirlwind of suicide bombers and indiscriminate terrorism. The owning classes consider the former an unfortunate necessity as much as extremists do the latter, but it's innocent and defenceless ordinary people that have to deal with the consequences of both.

The "War on Terrorism" is a ludicrous fantasy.