>>>>Disagree. The Islamic terrorists are motivated by ideology. Drug dealers are motivated by profit. You can dissuade the drug dealers by making the cost/benefit unattractive.
Well, the drug dealers are next door, while the jihadists are thousands of miles away. Tough enforcement of immigration laws can keep jihadists from coming to America, and deport those that are already here.
In any case, the federal government is not doing much to “make the cost/benefit unattractive”. You can ask the families of the American ranchers who have been murdered, by the government’s failure to enforce immigration laws.
The purpose of ballistic missiles is to make that irrelevant.