And then you have to <i>keep</i> them jailed, which under the current laws would not work for very long. There is a very short window of time between &#x27;could be a terrorist&#x27; and &#x27;blew himself up in a crowd&#x27; where such an intervention would work and would legally stick. But there is a <i>much</i> longer window of time (decades,typically) during which one can make sure a mind is hardened against the process that turns a young, promising person into a suicide bomber. We&#x27;re much too focused on that very small sliver of time and totally neglecting the decades preceding.