Is there an effective way to minimize or even prevent acts of terror?

Yes don't allow muslims into the country or tolerate their ideology in the United states. Profile them at the airport. All these other idiots think they hate us because we are in their countries. It's because what we represent. How ignorant. Yea we just want the oil. Give me a break we produce so much oil domestically we don't even need foreign oil anymore. That's why the price is so low.

Yes. Stop wars of aggression in the Middle East which are only fought to steal their natural resources. It started shortly after WWI when the Ottoman Empire was dissolved and Britain set it up into countries we are familiar with.

We could try listening to them.

So far the only demand that terrorists have made is for Americans to get out of their countries.

Of course this is never mentioned by our gov. Or on American "news" programs.

Our gov makes up all kinds of ridiculous "reasons" and assign it to Muslims, instead of addressing the complaints in their own words.

Stop focusing on the acts of terror and start focusing on acts of love.

Cyber monitoring, and infiltration and racial profiling of potential terrorists.