[Jamie89]

Originally Posted by kirklancaster

a) Stop these terrorists entering in the first place.
b) Stop these weapons entering in the first place.
c) Root out these 'Safe Houses'
d) Stop the means by which these immigrant terrorists communicate with each other and with their ISIS bosses.
e) Root out these fifth columnists working in our ports and airports, on our Town Councils, and in our Civil Service.

As can CLEARLY be seen; the ONLY people who are realistically able to achieve ALL Five of the above prerequisites, are our SECURITY and INTELLIGENCE SERVICES.

I think also that more could be done regarding the root causes of terrorism. So if you think of it like a timeline, of what causes terrorist acts through to an atrocity being committed, I'd pose that the points you make above come somewhere near the end/middle of the timeline but there's a whole lot of things wrong with the world that if they were to be addressed/solved, would have a much bigger impact on eradicating terrorism. That's more of a long term thing though and obviously doesn't help with current dangers. I don't know how well our security and intelligence services are equipped to deal with current dangers, but I think there are probably a lot of situations we don't see or hear about, and a lot of potential terrorist acts that get stopped without the public being told. But of course that's just conjecture.
And with point 'C' it strikes me as so strange that terrorists can even have safe houses. When the government holds so much information on us, how can these places stay hidden so well?

P.S. don't leave SD Kirk!!!