War is terrorism, magnified a hundred times.
Since war itself is the most extreme form of terrorism, a war on terrorism is profoundly self-contradictory.
How can you have a war on terrorism when war itself is terrorism?
If you want to end terrorism, you have to stop being terrorists
Are terrorists going to be deterred -- are terrorists going to be scared if we react violently? No. They love it. That's what they dote on. They dote on violence. They dote on having more reasons to commit more terrorism.
I do take the threat of terrorism seriously. You cannot eliminate that threat or diminish that threat by bombing a country.