You need two groups. Spies, and assassins. Spies to find the sleeper cells in every city of the world and the assassins to kill them. Quiet, hush hush, black bag operation. We once had that but got rid of it 20 years ago with the dreaded Torricelli amendment and the Church commission absolutely evicerated the CIA so we've got to recreate it.

Al Qaeda is not a country, or a military, and they arent in any given place. They operate in 3-5 man groups we call sleeper cells. They live in an apartment in some city and wait for orders. You hear about one getting busted every 6 months or so some where in the world. We need to kill them off and keep them down because you cant put a definitive end to it. You then maintain that spy and assassin outfit so every stateless group will fear the CIA just like every country fears the U.S. Military.