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Lesson the First.

It does little good to protect borders. If you wish to do any commerce with the rest of the world, terrorists will find a legal way to enter our country.

This is not a "War on Terrorism" Using that term is like saying we fought WWII in the Pacific as a "War on Naval Power" or in Europe, a "War on Mechanized Infantry."

Terrorism is simply a technique, a somewhat extreme form of guerilla warfare, nothing more than that.

We are engaged in a war on Islamic Terrorists.

Like every guerilla war, you can not defeat the guerilla on your soil. You cannot defend everything, so instead of hijacking airliners, next time he poisons your water supply, or blows up a school, etc.

The prescription for victory for the US is the knowledge that no guerilla war was ever successfully waged without the guerillas having the support of a third country. Even in the American revolution, we won at Yorktown because the British fleet could not evacuate Cornwallis' troops.... because the French fleet was offshore.

You defeat the G by attacking his supporters. When the cost is too high, they withdraw support, and the G disappears.