The Greatest Anti-Terror Principle in the World

I read a book in the late 80's or early 90's called "The Greatest Management Principle in the World" by (I believe) Geoff LeBeouf. The principle: What gets rewarded gets done.

In American business, Departments A and B get $100 per month budgets, each, for a coffee machine, cups, coffee, creamers, etc. Dept. A spends $110 and Dept. B spends $90. Management decides that Dept. A drinks more coffee and increases their budget, and decreases the budget of B because they don't "need" as much. The result? NO ONE COMES IN UNDER BUDGET. Going over budget is rewarded, so it gets done.

In politics taxation is rewarded by more money for politicians to throw at their popularity in assorted regions and industries, angling for re-election. Result: politicians are allergic to reducing taxes.

In the Middle East ... I have no idea what the reward is for violence. Israel has a theological mandate to occupy their land, and they have done a shockingly good job of it in the face of astounding odds against their survival. And I suppose a promise of virgins in Paradise is sufficient reward for relatively ignorant people to send their sons and daughters to their deaths wearing detonating apparel.

But religious fanatics don't think such things up on their own. Leaders infest fertile (read: otherwise unoccupied) minds with these ideas, and few preachers practice what they publish. So what do the leaders of violence gain? Discover this, and then work against the reward, and the behavior will change.