Beheading the new Hydra

Terrorism, enabled with the open doors of the global world and its communication networks, is now gaining on like the mythological Lernaean Hydra. Cut off one head, and two prop up. The recent bombings in Madrid, London and Egypt (apart from continual attacks in Baghdad) point out that we are ill-prepared to deal with "terrorism" (as it re-incarnates) at the moment. Investigating and convicting individuals concerned with a particular incident series is like cutting off one head, but something tends to follow up as happened in a panicky London recently.

Essentially addressing the issue at a case-by-case or state-by-state level is no longer feasible as most terrorist groups seemed to have linked together (thanks to the very globalisation they are against.) One part of curbing terrorism is elite anti-terrorist forces, with capabilities in multiple disciplines of warfare pertaining to terrorist attacks. Much of this has been seriously addressed and elite anti-terrorist forces are being trained by many countries around the world.

The second part is to understand the ideals exhibited by the terrorists are in most likelihood non-existent, immoral or irrational (or all of the above.) This can be clearly derived from the Aum Shinrikyo attacks of the past (where the attacks were in line with their ideology of destroying the living world to return and create it in the "right plan.") What is common in all attacks is that civilians unconcerned are harmed with no form of warning (Secret and Undeclared war). In the past, while addressing terrorism, the possibility of "peace-talks" were always present. In cases of ethnic conflict, repeated cease-fires, led to re-arming of the terrorist/guerilla groups resulting in the impossibility of peace. The world no longer believes in a diplomatic solution to any form of terrorism.