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For my answer to the original question, it depends if you are talking about an organization or a single terrorist. Terrorist that act by themselves generally are acting on an impulse against the United States(and in some cases government) and this makes their acts more incompetent.

However, terrorist organizations are some of the most tightly wired, well-thought out, well-organized, "smart" organizations in the world. For example, Hamas has television stations that are shown in Palestine to show the cruelties that Israelis execute upon non-Jews, and guess what, Hamas has gained more members because of this. The way these organizations(mainly Al-quada, sub-set Taliban, Hamas, and Hezbollah) are run, are more efficient then our own government. That is a scary thought. So are they incompetent, to some level yes all terrorist and terrorist organizations are, but do they deserve to be? My answer is yes.