[Targan]

These attacks are all too easy to perpetrate. We absolutely have to use military responses to individual threats, but if that's the only type of response we use, this shit is going to continue for a long time. The problem is twisted versions of religion, and violent ideologies. Many jihadis have had little to no formal education save what they can get for free in a Saudi-funded madrasa, and what sort of education do you think that would be? Then you've got deluded young westerners who have bought into the increasingly sophisticated jihadist propaganda that's all to easy to spread via social media.

If we don't find a way to drag out of miserable, abject poverty and ignorance the large parts of the Islamic world where all too many people basically have bugger all to live for, if we don't find a way to provide more secular, western-style education to those people, if we don't find better ways to support and de-radicalise disaffected Islamic youth inside our own countries, this "War on Terror" is going to continue for ever.