This so called 'war on terror' is not a war on terrorism presay this is an ideological conflict between Liberal Democracy and Secularism against Islamism. The enemy wants to see the values we hold so dear, freedom of religion, human rights, democracy, secular law, women's rights and etc destroyed.
All replaced by a global caliphate, ruled by the Sharia, where women would be regarded as the property of their husbands and forced to wear the veil, where people who do not believe in the particular form of Islam, let alone other religions be forced to live second class citizens, if lucky. If they are not lucky they will have the choice of convert, die or be enslaved literally. Slavery would become a real part of life again (heck it is a part of life where the Islamists are ruling now in the Sudan and to a degree in Gulf Countries and Saudi Arabia). Not to mention we would be plunged into a new dark age.
This conflict which is now occurring is as serious as the Cold War and World War 2 were. I advocate to the extent we can preserve the values we are fighting for to use any methods necessary to totally destroy this muthafuckers and their movement off the face of the planet.