Can the war on terror be won?

[KidneyStone]

This is an article i submitted to my school news paper.

The war on terror cannot be won the way it is currently being fought. United States, Australia, Britain, Poland,Japan, and Italy just some of the allies in the war on terror are all focusing their strengths on fighting the the terrorists in the terrorist organizations. The terrorist themselves are not the most threatening factor in the war on terror, it is the ideas supported by the terrorist that possess the most danger. These ideas give the terrorists reasons to believe that it is right for them to kill various groups of people in the name of there cause whether it be land or religion. These ideas are even more dangerous when terrorist organizations use death and the belief of martydom as a recruiting technique for there organizations, by making the death of one of their own to be a glorious thing in which posters of him or her are put up to recruit more to their cause. If killing the terrorist in the organizations doesn't stop terrorist beliefs and makes more people answer the call of the the terrorist propaganda then fighting the terrorists with out fighting the ideas is adding fuel to the fire.One example of how the allies in the war on terror can help stop the spread of the ideas and ultimately terrorism itself is by preventing situations such as the Chechen terrorists from selling video tapes of their terrorist acts to the public for entertainment, this spreads their ideas,funds their attacks, and needs to be stopped.