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"Treating the symptoms" and not curing the disease as well as being complacent and defense do exactly the same thing - a whole lot of nothing in the end.
I dont think very many people go out saying being complacent - people who choose other methods do so often willingly and actively.
And yes, indeed, much of the world doesn't like the U.S. sudden realization of fundamentalism as though it were brand new is because this has happened for centuries even millenia.
Europe has had problems with fundamentalists - from such old things as burning people at the stake for witchcraft to simply plain fundamentalism.
Islam fundamentalism isn't exactly new in many nations - Greece has seen the spread of Islam in ancient days from the Ottoman Empire for example. Spain was where much of the fighting and the Reconquest and other things were done centuries ago. England has long dealt with this often because of colonial ties in the area. Russia has long long long fought them - indeed, the USSR once held many Islamic areas that didn't exactly like their masters.
IMO the reason a 'war on terror' can never be won is that as long as people are desperate and seek to change people's minds in a big loud way, there will be those who feel their only choice is terrorism in anyway. Be it simple pipe bombs under cars, or giant truck bombs leveling buildings, or plane hijackings, bombings, whatever - so long as people are desperate and act as they do, those types of things can and will happen.
Because what's really different from a person who is desperate and goes out to shoot people to make a statement and a person who uses a bomb instead?
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