What would be your response? Would you wait until the next attack to see if
the terrorists really meant to harm us?

Of course not. The idea is to prevent the next, and all future attacks. You
guys generally seem to think that means militarily taking over every country
where criminal terrorists reside. I think it means:

1. Identify the enemy. Do this by doubling, tripling, or quintupling the
intelligence budget. Use both electronic surveillance *and* clandestine
operatives. Infiltrate the
terrorist cells and identify the criminal terrorist *******s during the
planning process, (not after the fact).

2. Surgically remove the terrorist leaders.
We can do this in ways that would leave even their supporters unsure whether
the
head ******* was taken out by the US or died of natural causes.

3. Avoid repeating the mistakes of Israel, Russia, and other countries that
have decades of experience fighting the same problem.

4. Try to insure that we are not creating hatred for the US faster than we are
killing off the folks who already hate us.