Dissuasion vs. Persuasion, was Re: [Iraq] The real reason for the war

From: Michael M. Butler (mmb@spies.com)
Date: Sat Jun 07 2003 - 13:41:23 MDT

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    Jumping in:

    I think the problem here is that "dissuasion" is difficult to guarantee (or
    validate), just as is "persuasion".

    I don't think this situation has a tidy solution; nor a quick one, apart
    from the Albigensian approach ("Kill them all; God will know his own", in
    the apocryphal wording). This is grievous.

    On Sat, 7 Jun 2003 14:32:50 EDT, <Spudboy100@aol.com> wrote:

    > On your points 3 and 4; one might then conclude that the disuasion of
    > radical, militant Islam as practiced by Salafists, Wahabbis, and Shiite
    > Ayatollahs, as well as their Baathist cohorts, would thus be in your
    > interests? 

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I am not here to have an argument. I am here as part of a civilization. 
Sometimes I forget.

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