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For every effect, there is a cause. It's a basic principle of the universe. The point I made is that we discuss the issue of terrorism as if it had no cause but only poor excuses.
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To give cause/effect is to ignore a persons right to choose the illogical. At anytime I can get a gun and shoot my neighbor, without any cause. While choices can be guided, coerced and manipulated they can never be fully controled. So saying cause/effect effects every person denies them the right of choosing the wrong decision which includes blowing up women and children in persuit of a stupid idea.
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Focusing all your energy on retaliation for those insane tactics is an utterly useless cause - like focusing all your energy on defeating pneumonia while ignoring the real issue the AIDS infection.
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Actually I see it the same way as arresting theives and murderers. No you havent stopped the crime from being committed, and in no way will it prevent every single other person from thereon out, but you divert many other people away from following in their footsteps.
I give you the stopsign in the middle of nowhere argument. You're driving in the middle of the desert, no cars within 100miles. You run into a stopsign, do you stop or drive through? Lets face it the only reason we stop is because we dont want to get ticketed, not because we think it's inherantly right. If there's no cop there why bother stopping? Now make that a bigger argument, why cower in a hole when there's no military force who would strike back at you for killing children on a mass scale?
You're looking at the problem as it it's solvable, I look at the problem as if it isnt, but we can hold it to a minimum.