By damaging the rancher's home, we encourage him to take up the snakes' side. Leave the snakes to die and they'll be gone in a generation. Kill them and they live forever.
Terrorists want to bring attention to their causes, and they don't care who dies for it (often themselves included). ANY reaction provoked is a victory for them. Turning the other cheek is probably the hardest path to choose, but it's the only one with any chance of permanent victory.
I am the last person you will ever hear justifying the current state of politics, but the naivete of people who write things like this is astounding
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In the case being addressed here, ignoring the terrorist will build a bigger and more friendly posse than fighting him. We could be a sympathetic victim, but instead we're just a bully fighting another bully.
As stated in my other comment on this thread, I agree that meeting terrorist bullying with more bullying is moronoic and counterproductive. I do not think the current terrorist issues are a case study in the importance of non-interventionist foreign policy, which I generally support.
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Terrorists want to bring attention to their causes, and they don't care who dies for it (often themselves included). ANY reaction provoked is a victory for them. Turning the other cheek is probably the hardest path to choose, but it's the only one with any chance of permanent victory.
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