OT: Counter-Terrorism is a Farce

[Renegade 13]

It seems that every time I turn on the news or the radio, people are freaking out due to terrorism threats. Oooh, someone might use liquids to blow up a plane! Oh no, Hezbollah is evil! Etc, etc, ad nauseum. No one seems to understand that extra "security measures" simply play into the hands of these terrorists. Why, you ask? The simple, economical cost of all these security measures costs billions per year. Any idiot knows that if you're trying to hurt a country, you don't try to kill a few thousand of its citizens; that's ineffecient. No, you figure out a way to cost the country billions of dollars. Now that will hurt the country long term! So what's the solution?

Here's my simple solution to the problem:

Get rid of all additional security measures that have been put in since 2001. They're pointless, and they cost a hell of a lot. Don't worry about stopping terrorists.

All you have to do, is when some terrorists go and hijack a plane and plan to go crash it into a building, shoot it down. Fire off a SAM at the aircraft, it'll go down. Its not like it has any electronic countermeasures like modern fighters. No damage to anything except the plane and the people on it. Yes, the people on the plane will die. However, the response to the hijackings is what will ultimately stop these attacks.

Every time some terrorist goes and hijacks a plane and you're forced to blow it out of the sky, you first figure out where the terrorists came from, their home cities. This may take a little bit, but once you figure it out, you destroy one of those cities. Absolutely wipe it off the surface of the Earth. Every time some more terrorists hijack a plane, or blow up a subway system, etc, you wipe out another city. I bet that within 6 months, you won't ever have to worry about terrorist attacks again. After half a dozen of your own planes are shot down by your own missiles, and half a dozen cities are destroyed, no more terrorist attacks will occur.

Now, this may seem heartless and cold-blooded. It probably is. But it'll work. It would probably save more domestic lives in the long term, and will cost a lot less in the long term as well. What do you guys think; would it work and is it practical. What are your solutions to the terrorist problems (which are, admittedly, blown out of all proportion by the media)?