How To Deal With Radicals

On the Fora Tv program I referenced yesterday, the speaker argued that you cannot "dialog" with a radical. You can give a radical everything they ask for and they will continue to be radical. Worse, if you do give them want they ask for, they tend to become emboldened and ask for more without making any concessions.

The mistake the United States made in trying to broker a peace between Yasir Arafat's PA and Israel was misunderstanding Arafat. At one time, we believed he was practical and convinced the Israeli's to "give peace a chance," at Oslo. We gave him public recognition - the Nobel Peace Prize - and offered him 90% of what the Palestinian people claimed to "want." The only thing they left out was a bit of land and the "right of return," or in essence, the demographic dissolution of the Jewish state. But Arafat - because he was always a radical - could not accept these terms. Some argue if he accepted, he was worried about being assassinated by Palestinians, which may have been true. His own poisonous environment coming back to bite him in the ass.

The radical, he argues, only understands confrontation and threat. You must confront and cannot appease a radical. Here is example: a FARC commander is surrendering and recommending the same for her comrades.

For those who wonder when/how the WOT will end: this is it - in their complete surrender. Not because WE want war, on the contrary, because we want a lasting peace. Islamic Terrorists are radicals and thusly, no lasting peace can be breached with them.