Islamic terrorists consider martyrdom to be a good thing. This makes combatting them a difficult matter.
Although the Soviets had exceedingly few good ideas in their time, they weren't ALWAYS wrong. When Hezbollah was kidnapping Western diplomats and businessmen in Lebanon during the early '80's, the Western governments were wringing their hands and gnashing their teeth, trying to figure out what to do. Soon, Hezbollah kidnapped a Soviet diplomat. Rather than quivering with indecision, the KGB was called upon to remedy the situation. They kidnapped wives and children of Hezbollah leadership, chopped them up into VERY small pieces, and sent the pieces back to Hezbollah, presumably with a note reading something to the effect of, "We trust you won't be kidnapping any more Soviet nationals.".
Guess what? They didn't.
We could learn a thing or two from their Machiavellianism, if little else.
2007-01-17
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