[9th Engineer]

tw, even though we do run a risk of terrorism by running our society the way we do it we would be fools to just roll over and explain away the slaughtering of innocents as 'collateral damage'. There is a cohesive group performing these attacks, all muslims are not looking to destroy western civilization, but the people who ARE are overwhelmingly muslim. The unwillingness of muslim sects in the affected countries to condemn extremest groups is what has largely destroyed their reputations since it denotes tollerence of their actions.

What would you have us do? The attacks must stop, so how do you propose to root out the perpetrators with minimal collateral damage? I suppose one idea would be a psychological campain aimed at shaming anyone even remotely associated with the extremests. Force people to cut their ties and sever their support chains of sympathizers by promoting the attitude that the extremests and anyone who supports them are absolute, complete scum. People start to notice when others cross the street to avoid passing them on the sidewalk.