That's an interesting take on things and I would tend to agree that it is one of the conditions. ...probably one of the most difficult though.
My only problem with the war on terror is that it's next to impossible, if not impossible, to define victory in this war. Terror will always be used by the weak to raise the visibility of their "cause". It's cheap, easy and one guy/gal can do it.
IMHO, despite our best intentions/efforts, we will be very hard pressed to put the islamo-terror Gennie back in the bottle. Coupled with the general fact that the public can only stomach so many of it's own coming home in body bags, the next few years will be a somewhat of a, er, "challenge" for the powers that be and our armed forces. Personally, I think we project intentions too much and we need to go more "black" with things. The WOT is not a conventional war and we need to fight it as such.
Was reading an interesting article last night written by someone from the Naval Postgraduate School focusing on cyberterror as it relates to conventional terror. Some here my find it interesting too:
http://www.fas.org/irp/threat/cyber/docs/npgs/terror.htm
The really interesting part about this article is that it was written in 1995. Kinda weird to look back 10 years and see what's changed.