Defeating terrorism

In addition, this involves increasing the potential and real cost to those who would support the terrorists so they have no choice but to abandon the cause. After all the political, ideological, religious and financial leadership behind these groups are normally furthest from the actual battlefield.
What America needs now is moral clarity, which unfortunately must include a willingness to suffer casualties to defeat the terrorists. Though this represents a personal loss for many, it cannot paralyze us strategically. After all, in more than four years of fighting we have yet to lose as many Americans on the battlefield as we lost in four hours on our streets on September 11, 2001. If we are to win, we must be rededicated to physically and philosophically taking the fight to the enemy.