How do we stop terrorism when its repercussions are so devastating? | Jason Burke

For more than 150 years hatemongers have felt powerful by making the public feel vulnerable and afraidFor more than 150 years, we have been living with terrorism. Like an inherited illness, it is passed from generation to generation. Waves of violence succeed one another. Early anarchists, fascists, 1960s revolutionaries, hijackers of the 1970s, militant nationalists in the 1980s, Islamist extremist or extreme rightwing hatemongers, all are variations on a dismal theme.Decades of security strate