Why do you think the West wants to open any options? Terrorism is very profitable for the elites in power. It allows restrictions of personal liberties for the lower classes (as an example, remember your last airport security experience? Did you know that if you have a private jet you don't go through security at all?), allows more favours to be given and taken - as more bureaucracy means more opportunities for corruption, and allows to quickly and decisively affect public opinion. Terrorism is the best thing that has happened to politicians everywhere. I mean what would be the winning shpiel of the 2nd Bush campaign? Or what would McCaine's powerbase be? Or Obama's? Economy and terrorism are the 2 topics everyone is focused on, but the economy has only really been an issue for the past 18 months.

So you're trying to find solutions for people who don't want them. And I, for one, defend the right of any guy displeased with his government to go get a gun and actually try and change it. I think the West has become a bunch of scared sheep that allows the government waay too much leeway in exchange for very little.

I remind you the words of Ben Franklin "Those who will sacrifice freedom for security, deserve neither". I wish that when I'm told in the airport "for your security remove your shoes and belt and put them on the scanner belt" I could say, "Can I keep my shoes and belt on and be in charge of my own security?"

But unfortunately that isn't even an option.