I disagree with your assertions. First of all, how are we going to concentrate on protecting our homeland? We have an administration that is trying to do exactly that, yet they are constantly attacked for it every single day. People yelled and screamed after 9-11 that the government should have known about the plot, yet now when the government tries to uncover terrorist plots beforehand they are constantly and consistently attacked for doing just that. Mostly by people on the left for their own political purposes.

In the last election we even had the Democratic candidate basically flat out say that fighting terrorism is a law enforcement issue. That is complete insanity. Police agencies can't fight terrorism. Most are not equipped with the resources and intelligence units required to uncover terrorist plots. Especially those of an international scope. Police agencies can respond to the scene after the buildings have been blown up and initiate investigations from that point, but anyone who thinks fighting terrorism is solely a local law enforcement matter is bordering on insane. If that is how some people want to fight terrorism on our own soil, there is going to be many more attacks and many dead Americans.

Forcibly confronting terrorist organizations with military force is a necessity. Just look at Israel's problem with Hezbollah. They are a well-armed and well-trained terrorist organization. There is absolutely no way to solve the Hezbollah problem without military force.

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A smaller world? Yeah, I know everyone says that because you can fly it or call it and get across it quicker it's a smaller planet. But has it has never ben so populated and diverse. Have you ever seen a map of the world from about 1200AD? It was a much smaller place with much more ethnic and cultural segregation. You have never had so many different and diverse cultures living on top of each other and people are doing a damn good job of killing more of each other with less effort than it took in 1200.

There was plenty of killing going on in 1200 AD. In that period of time Muslim armies had already marched into Europe and were engaging in a bloody conquest of India. Islam was spread by the sword, not by peaceful means. Also during that time the beginnings of the Ottoman Empire were beginning to take shape. In later years they too would initiate bloody expansion, even into Europe.

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Quick show of hands: A) Who among you really has a solution to STOP Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, al qaeda and every other militant Islamic extremist organization? And B) Who honestly thinks that if we stay on course that some day they will be eliminated as threats to the safety of those that they now oppose?

Both military means and the use of intelligence services are needed to combat Islamic terrorism.

The most important aspect of combating Islamic terrorism is societal change. The insanity of political correctness and suicidal notions of multiculturalism have to be eliminated from the national mindset.

Politicians in the West have to stop calling it the "war on terror". Terror is the tactic. Cowardice and political correctness gives cover to the enemy. The enemy is Militant Islam, Radical Islam, or Islamic fundamentalism. Pick a name, but the enemy needs to be named and named often by our leaders.

Radical Islam is openly preached on almost every college campus across this country and every Western nation. Political correctness and the "multicultural" attitudes allow this to occur and even coddle and encourage this activity. We allow radical Islam right under our noses, yet we have college professors being fired for perceived insults to Islam as has recently happened in DePaul because the teacher challenged the hatred espoused by Muslim student groups.

You ask what can be done to combat Islamic terrorism when we live in a modern society that is committing it's own slow version of cultural and societal suicide.

You also ask what can be done when we have pro-jihadi Islamist Muslim organizations like CAIR and MPAC practically dictating government policy to combat Islamic terrorism.

When truth becomes more important than protecting sensitivities, the first battle in the war on Islamic terrorism will be won. You however have to ask yourself, are you doing your part along those lines?