Quite so, westman, but the suppression of the media is not a viable option, any moves in that direction would play into terrorist hands. In the dark little world they envision, no one has the right to free speech. I think more of our efforts should be directed at the media of those countries where terrorism easily takes root. Egypt, for example, has come under scrutiny recently. According to a Washington Post editorial, its leader “props himself up with $2 billion a year in U.S. aid while encouraging state-controlled clerics and the media to promote the anti-Western propaganda of the Islamic extremists”.
The extremists appear to understand the value of money quite well; that amount could be leveraged to useful advantage I should think.