The real problem with the very concept of Terrorism which Nobody seems to want to say out loud is this: if someone is willing to give up his life to harm another then there is nothing one can really do about it. What do we threaten him with? How does he fit into the Terrorist Genre with enough slack that we can recognize him BEFORE he blows himself up? What if? What if? What if?

There is no real "What if" that can be studied nor any act that can be forstalled in the ordinary sense of the word where such a person is involved. In the final analysis, there is not one damn thing that can be done to stop him from doing whatever it is he wants to do except to kill him before he kills you. That is the only possible choice we have, like it or not.

:hat