I am increasingly pessimistic over the chances of the international community ever being able to prevail over the jihadi terrorism of the kind practised by the Al Qaeda and the various jihadi organisations of differentnationalities--five of them Pakistani--allied with it in the Carlos-style united front called the International Islamic Front(IIF).
To be able to prevail over a threat, one has to have a clear understanding of thethreat--where it emanates from, the organisations posing the threat and how they operate, their leaders, where theyrecruit from, the level of their expertise, how they acquired it, how they network with each otherand so on.