"Depends how many you kill when you bomb them. It DOES cut down on repeat offenders. This does, however, have to be conducted with other operations on the political and civil front. But that doesn't mean you stop bombing. The three complement each other."
Excellent point...the only problem is, countries like the US and the UK have leaned heavily on the bombing side of things and haven't really made any effort to understand what it is these people are fighting for/against. I'm in no way condoning terrorism, I'm just saying that the "war on terrorism" would be much more effective if all these so-called "counter-terrorism" experts in the US actually understood the underlying political, economic and social causes of terrorism rather then focusing solely on short term solutions like "target-hardening" and all that fun stuff. Sure it will make the jobs of the terrorists harder, but will it eliminate them...no it won't. Sure bombing will eliminate repeat offenders...but as long as the causative factors behind terrorism still remain, then more terrorists will come to take the place of those killed by American bombs.