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I would probably seek a long term goal while going with some short term actions first. First would be to increase spending on borders and shipping in and out - the fact that ships can go in and out of port carrying be it people, bombs, hell a nuke and go undetected is scary. And given the number of large cities with ports and access by sea, I feel our patrols there are inadequate right now.
Next I'd adopt a two-fold strategy. First would be negotiations with real rational people. No, not nutjobs, but people in power that are actually sane and willing to negotiate (believe it or not, there are). Promote and help them fight the fringe extreme elements.
Include amnesty to lower ranks of terrorist organizations - in other words, remove the incentive to join and get the real power base, the people that carry the bombs and the ones that fight, to get out quick.
This would go with the other part which would be to send out intelligence agents and spec ops to eliminate the higher officials and those who don't want to give up. Actively hunt and pursue them. Disrupt their work until they give up or are eliminated. Might sound dirty but its a tactic that would sift through those who are really nuts and don't care and those who actually have a sense or rational thought in them.
You promote peace to to remove collateral damage that may hurt the long term in terrorism (such as new recruits over old wounds) and to remove incentives for fighting (if everything is fine, why the hell fight) while you actively seek out and remove those who are funding and leading groups by operatives and bounties. Its one thing to send the military in to find one man while you have a bunch of fighters out there to fight the military - its another to have assassins after you everywhere you go, even threats against your family, while you watch your back everywhere you go because a few billion dollars might be on your head.
Even the hardiest may suffer psychological break downs with that kind of a life
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