content: For starters, stop creating more terrorist by funding militias, bombing towns, removing leaders without a serious plan to rebuild, etc. Then start doing what should have been doing from the beginning: Winning hearts and minds.  Without an incessant influx of new lunatics, weapons, misery and hostilities, with friends and an overall positive standing with the communities, these terrorists will be isolated, weakened, starved with no place to go or friends to use. Their demise will come in their own hands or will become nothing more a small band of nearly harmless lunatics hated by everyone. This is how you fight terrorism, however, considering the actions of past DECADES, if you really want to fix this problem you should expect decades of hard work and trillions of dollars invested. The question is... do you want to stop terrorism or you just want to keep crushing the few cockroaches the come to light while they breed like crazy in the shadows?