Bush commutes Libby sentence

[Jester]

I think the only way to stop it is to try to cut off the head of the snake, while also making it lethal to be a snake. I think then the snake will choose to change into a bunny.

Perhaps this is at the core of it.

I don't think there is any chance whatsoever that you are going to subdue the extremists by force. You could kill the 100 most important terrorists in the world, and all that would do is promote the next 100. You cannot "cut off its head" so long as it retains the ability to grow new heads, and that is a matter of what people believe.

If you pursue this method, you will fight them forever. It is happening now, they grow in number as you diminish. As you say, easier to destroy than create, and you will end up being the destroyers until finally you are exhausted, and they will still hate you. What began as an irrational, fanatical minority would become the enraged majority, made hopeless and angry by ceaseless, senseless violence.

"Snakes" only become "bunnies" if they have an incentive to do so. Violence does not create that incentive. It removes it.

-Jester