We can win the war on terrorism in one fell swoop, by tilting our heads a bit and looking at it from a a different perspective: consider terrorism as political speech, and consequently Constitutionally protected.
This is certainly taking the very high road, almost Zen. The primary goal of a criminal trial after a terrorist act would be to determine if it was truly a political act or for personal gain (the latter would remain illegal).
The world will probably be a very different place. Will the world even exist, or will we annihilate ourselves?
Perhaps the world won't be such a different place. Society will develop other mechanisms to try to prevent terrorism, or lessen its effect.
One way to thwart terrorism is to make sure there exist other effective mechanisms for political change that a potential terrorist would choose preferentially over committing an act of violence. (Thus, terrorism serves as a canary to signal a broken political system.) This proposal will certainly suit the suicide bomber.
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