Good posts, many of you.
The War on Terror - a name I don’t like, but it is politically correct - can never be solely a criminal justice matter.
The terrorists didn’t kill the 3000 on 9/11 because they had an individual grudge against each and every one of them. In other words, those murdered on the attacks of 9/11 weren’t ends - they were means.
They were the means to the end of attacking the state. Terrorists want to bring down the state, the society. That is war in its most classic form.
So it should be treated as war. And in war, the object is to win.
As to the whole utopian concept of winning hearts and minds, remember there have to be hearts and minds to win. The plight of the Muslim world is not the fault of the surrounding world - the wound is self-inflicted. No amount of apologizing or giving aid will change that culture.