What we're dealing with today is a war between civilization and barbarism. There is no negotiation with someone for whom the concept of negotiation is a display of weakness.
That only happens when the side offering negotiation is offering it from a position of weakness.
The West
is weak. It has great military power, but lacks the will to do what needs to be done to defeat these barbarians. They recognize that weakness.
Bin Laden called us a "Paper Tiger" and though he may now be dead, he appears to have been right. We never had the will to do what was needed to defeat his ideology.
Now, we could have done it quickly with overwhelming force and wiping out all who supported him mercilessly. We did not have the will to do that.
Alternatively, we could have done it slowly by wiping out the terrorists as they popped up while preventing as many "non-combatant" deaths as possible and deposing hostile dictators while trying to build an alternative model for the less enthusiastic supporters of Bin Laden's ideology. We clearly lost interest long before that happened and thus do not have the will to do that, either.
So, we will continue to see these Godless bloodthirsty savages (for that is what they are) ignore and even taunt the West- they realize our weakness is not found in our impressive technology and soldiers. It is in the will to use them.
Si vis pacem, para bellum. We have not been preparing for war in this country. Our people have no idea what it takes to fight a war. We have prepared our military capabilities while allowing our national will to be purposely degraded. It will not end well given what will be necessary to solidify that will.