(Go Israel, Go! Slap 'Em Down Hezbullies.)
Nothing but Jesus Christ himself will be able to COMPLETELY eliminate terrorism.
From my viewpoint there are only 2 ways the terrorist can be completely beaten once and for all. Knock them down and they'll just rise up again later. They need to either
a) be completely wiped out, and the world is too politcally correct to even mouth the words much less carry it out.
b) That Jesus Christ' return proves to them once and for all that there religion was wrong and they bow down before him.
Churchill said something about facing down an enemy before he gets so strong that you have to fight to preserve your nation, or even to fight knowing you're going to die because it's better to be free and dead than to live as a slave.
Looking at the gathering conflagration with a speck of objectivity, I'm becoming more and more convinced that politically you can not convince a free people to engage in total war on the basis of what may happen. Even though the gathering barbarism and brutality of the enemy becomes more flagrant every day, and we can see it as plainly as the nose on our faces, there are too many people who think this is just international politics as usual, to turn our ship-of-state onto a total war footing at the present time. Churchill was scorned for years until France fell and Dunkirk happened, then they wanted him "on that wall."
Simply put, things aren't bad enough yet for us to do the things that are necessary to put this down.
I think that when things become so obvious to the average real American, i.e., those that live in the red states and some in the blue states, such as yourself in deep, dark California, things will get done. Many of us have had military training (though mine is 46 years old) and probably could be "whipped into shape" fairly quickly.