If we were serious about ending this we'd simply announce that everytime a terrorist beheaded an american citizen we'd raze a large town in the region the crime occurred and kill all the occupants.
Pretty soon the village inhabitants in the rest of the towns would be so inspired to prevent terrorism this sort of thing would quit happening.
"If we were serious about ending this we'd simply announce that everytime a terrorist beheaded an american citizen we'd raze a large town in the region the crime occurred and kill all the occupants. "
Yup. That's a tactic that worked well in Chechnya, (former) Yugoslavia and also one notable for keeping the Nazi's loved by the world and stopping people joining the war on the side of their enemies.
/sarcasm (in case you didn't figure)
That's a very good plan. Israel's been razing houses of terrorists, but this goes further and would likely get faster and better results.