Perhaps in the same method we investigate any and all other situations where we are not at war. As I stated, the efficacy of investigative anti-terror tactics i

Perhaps in the same method we investigate any and all other situations where we are not at war. As I stated, the efficacy of investigative anti-terror tactics is well established (these are what you call the "naive and fantasy filled ruminations). The efficacy of invasion and occupation via military force is not only not well established but is also turning into the cause of increased resistance and terror tactics (these you would apparently call "reality-based methods"). You failed to address these critical distinctions and your misplaced insistence on focusing on a Caliphate that now has little if anything to do with the bulk of terrorist activity is likely the cause of your failure to recognize the futility of waging war against a concept. It doesn't take plundering a nation by the military in order for a war to have massive wealth producing opportunities for those involved in promoting it and deciding to under take it. As I said, you may receive no chests full of loot - but hundreds of corporations are, to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars. There is unquestionably a massive financial incentive for everlasting war. Meanwhile, the war you gain nothing from produces the opposite of what you seek (less terrorists).