I would say it's obviously future-oriented, the outrage by the Islamic culprits having already been committed, reversal not being feasible. Comes down to making it really expensive and dead-end to be a wog.
So, yeah, "preventing", as in "NEVER AGAIN!".
Golda Meier also got it right! (Although mistakes were made, as in the case of that Moroccan waiter in Lillehammer — collateral damage up close!)
Rabid dogs must be put down, political correctness and "political winds and ugly directions" be damned!
So, IOW, they’re not like our DHS goon squads that subject the citizenry to a different brand of terror in the name of antiterrorism?