'we invest more money into surgical bombing to minimize casualties more so than any nation in the world.'
This fact might just be because we drop more bombs than anyone else in the world, hmmm SU?
Personally, I think the best way to go about waging a war on terrorism is to attack the problem at the root; i.e. hatred of America. Irrational hatred, say, religiously motivated, we can't do much against besides 'kill the towelheads.' Rational hatred on the other hand, can be prevented. Say if we invaded few countries, killed a lot of innocent people, and pissed off all their relatives; well, that's something we can try to stop doing.
The second means of preventing terrorism is by going after the biggest arms dealer in the world. That's, um, us.
And if we could pull out heads out of our nationalistic asses for long enough to realize that AIDS kills more people in a day than terrorism has ever killed, maybe we could realize that there are more important things that can be done than trying to defend our country's reputation, i.e. 'we don't take shit from anyone.'
Theory 1: Irrational terrorism can never be 'fully' preventable, except in a police state; and even then, it's still a possibility.
Theory 2: Trying to eradicate irrational terrorism is like trying to blow out a fire in a haystack. The more you blow, the more the flame is kindled. Give people reasons to hate us and give them targets for hatred (say, troops patrolling Main Street), and you've given people the power to be 'terrorists.'
'Oh, and Morocco offered 2000 monkeys to help detonate landmines (an offer which was refused).' - J.D._May