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What deters them is a show of force. Unfortunately it is a bit unPC to decapitate one of the detained insurgents (or perhaps 10) for everyone one allied one they decapitate. But that would likely make them stop.

jason, Theology Web 15 Comments [7/1/2004 12:00:00 AM]
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#378624

GigaGuess

Somehow...I doubt that.

"An eye for an eye, and the world goes blind."

1/10/2008 10:27:01 PM

#378640

Alena

Yeah, good idea! Fan the flames! That'll make them go out for sure.

1/10/2008 11:00:39 PM

#378673

SSJPunk

No. It wouldn't. But it would piss them off something fierce, and generate 10 terrorists in each beheaded one's place...

1/10/2008 11:48:22 PM

#378675

Flatworm

I might point out that these are the same people whose signature method of attack is the suicide bomber.

1/10/2008 11:50:06 PM

#378677

Hawker Hurricane

Right! That will show the world that we are more moral than they are!

No, wait...

1/10/2008 11:51:11 PM

#461973

aaa

No comment.

4/11/2008 10:14:09 AM

#461980

Brain_In_A_Jar

But that would likely make them stop.

Yes, that might make them stop but, you see, it would also have made you start. How is the world a better place when it contains a group of people who decapitate ten times as many of their prisoners as the group they suppressed?

4/11/2008 10:23:53 AM

#462263

christgrinder

nice way to show your "turn the other cheek" policy asshole

4/11/2008 4:45:44 PM

#569532

NoAstronomer

What the feck happened to WWJD? I liked WWJD, it almost made sense.

7/2/2008 6:08:53 PM

#569565

David B.

If decapitating people is so persuasive why haven't the allied troops packed up and gone home by now?

7/2/2008 6:26:24 PM

#1332629

Hate to godwin that, but it apparently didn't work for the nazis.

9/15/2011 7:08:58 AM

#1332741

rw23

OK, I know I'm sailing close to the Godwin when I present this lesson from history, but here we go:

During the Second World War, if a German soldier was found dead in Occupied Europe the local commander would as likely as not round up ten local men at random and threaten to shoot them if the killer didn't give himself up. Sometimes the men were simply shot straightaway, in retaliation.

Remind me, please, whether or not that stopped the resistance movements in France, Norway, Denmark, Belgium, the Netherlands, Greece, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Poland...

Edit: Damn, beaten to it! Note to self - get home from work sooner.

9/15/2011 10:45:38 AM

#1332746

Anon2

Well, "jason", I would consult some experts on that field first.

Not too long ago, Afghanistan was occupied by another army in another war. From time to time, they killed 10 enemy insurgents as retaliation for each killed own soldier.

Before applying such drastic measures, you should first ask the Russians how well this turned out. They entered Afghanistan in 1979 with high hopes to leave after six months ... and they had to withdraw 10 years later, utterly defeated and demoralized.

9/15/2011 11:01:51 AM

#1332803

anti-nonsense

actually that would just make things worse.

9/15/2011 2:43:51 PM

#1332820

Anon

Even Hammurabi knew that was a bad idea ("an eye for an eye" was a warning against excessive retribution).

Protip: when your ideas are 3800 years out of date, you may want to rethink them.

9/15/2011 3:53:48 PM