[WOODPIE]

I guess it is common practice to quote another poster in one's own post, if only to keep the topic of discussion fresh in all the reader's heads. Often these discussions get sidetracked, and I sometimes need help focusing on what the topic was originally.

More often, unfortunately, these quotes are simply being used as a debating tool. And so, it is with deep reservations that I quote the following:

"Terrorism will never be fully eradicated, BUT it can be made so costly that most (of?) those terrorists will decide to try to get along."

I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but I thought I was pretty much up-to-date with what humanity generally considers most precious. Someone tell me, please! what has come along to replace life itself? The point being, my question:

What can be done to make an act of terrorism so prohibitively more costly than it already is to the terrorist?

Ed