[RKC]

There is no end. But that isn't because Terrorism is something uniquely dangerous and powerful. It's just that it's another evil we need to defeat.

People have always had to battle other ideologies - anarchists, fascists, communists, now jihadists. Angry young men thousands of years ago would have used WMD's if they'd been available to them. Come to think of it, they did worse than that - read your Ancient history, when all the men of a defeated town or region were killed and the women and children were enslaved. That's why the Etruscan language/society (for which the Tuscany area of Italy is named) is lost to us: beause the Romans were so angry that they wiped the entire civilization away.

I suppose, when the world is big enough and close enough to have a single government, the WAR on terrorism will end. But since human nature will remain unless we curtail freedom and privacy and desire with guns or walls or drugs, the war will just become a police/crime problem.

The battle may have a different name someday. It might leap out from countries or cities that are peaceful today. But it will never go away.

That's no reason to despair though - we've managed to stay ahead of it for all of recorded history.....