Beachgirl, Adaman >
Firstly, I don't know how you (or anyone else here) would know "from the mouth of the terrorists" what their intents and motives are, since every time a "terrorist" organisation releases a speech, western media either heavily censor it or ignore it entirely.
The current leader of ISIS, when he assumed his leadership position, made a public speech where he explained his ideology, his intents, his religious position and his logic of action quite clearly. What was shown of that speech in western media? A truncated sentence of two words.
Secondly, you're making an unpleasant amalgam between different terrorist groups which are not all djihadists and don't all want the same things. The Hezbollah, the Hamas, Al Qaeda, ISIS, Boko Haram and the Caucasus Emirate are all different groups with different objectives, different targets, different means of action, and different supports. You can't all treat them as the same indistinct entity, this is absurd even from a strategic and militaristic standpoint.
Thirdly, again, you don't seem to understand why these groups exist, what they are an answer to. ISIS exists because the Americans invaded Iraq, because in the resulting chaos, sunni in Iraq became the target of persecution by the shia majority.
The acts commited by ISIS are barbaric, monstruous, unexcusable. But they are neither blind nor gratuitous, they're an answer to a situation which the west has created. A horrible, highly immoral answer, but an answer, not a random and irrational outburst.
What I am trying to say is that reckless acts have consequences. When you spill racist hate for years, when you continuously insult an identified community, their religion and their culture, this has consequences. When you recklessly and hastily invade a foreign country without a clear objective nor a sound battle plan, this has consequences.
You can blame the people involved in these answers for their immorality, you can pursue them ruthlessly, but no amount of ruthless force will prevent acts from having consequence, no amount of police force deployment will prevent terrorists to get their way if they're desperate.
Russia has the ruthless and most efficient anti-terrorist force in the world, they don't make details, they shoot to kill, they arrest and they torture, they do everything american Republicans have wet dreams about. You know which country is still plagued by terrorism? Yep, Russia. There are 600 djihadists hidden in the mountains of the Russian Caucasus, who have been there since the second Chechnya war, and that Russian forces, for all their demonstrations, are unable to extirpate, and unable to prevent from regularly attacking the population.
Barely a month ago, a group of armed militants entered Grozny and occupied the "press house" building. They killed 15 people (mostly policemen). Where were all the people who are now crying over CH when this happened?
And of course, in Russia, particularly in Grozny, this is not notably exceptional: 6 people died in a suicide bombing, just two months before that, also in Grozny. The Russians traded freedom for security, and predictingly, they got neither.
