gentle persuasion only works if your opponent is a civilized person.
non-violence is ineffective when the opposition's stated aim is to wipe you out.
pacifism in the face of an unthinking swarm of army ants simply means the ants dont have to work as hard.
conflict resolution strategies you learned in kindergarten dont work outside of the playground.
jeffrey dahmer raped, murdered, engaged in sexual acts with corpses and ate his victims. even the ones who didnt fight back.
submissiveness, passivity and non-resistance in the face of a street thug only emboldens the thug, it does not mollify his wanton uirges.
the tactics of the terrorist requires a civilized opponent who will be appropriately shocked and horrified at such indiscriminate violence.
al quaeda, hamas, the PLO, abu saif, and all the other militant organizations that espouse the primitive and savage cult of mohammed inculcate children with their hatred, brainwash teenagers, use retarded kids, and demand total submission from their cult followers to further the aims of their cult because those tactics WORK against civilized opponents. they do NOT work against socialist dictators, and other equally savage and brutal organizations. even the afghan mujahadeen had zero success against the soviets with terrorist attacks. it wasnt until the soviet union fell from it's own corruption, and civilized regimes rose in it's place that terrorist leaning groups could feel confident enough to try terrorist tactics. the soviet would have burned all of chechnya to bare earth before giving an inch to the primitive savages who murder kids for political or religious ideology. ghengis khan would only laugh at the antics of al quaeda before burning all of yemen to the ground and salting the earth.
shock outrage horror and fear are the goals of the terrorist plotter. allowing those useless emotions to cloud your judgement is pure stupidity. alawalaki junior was raised form childhood to be exactly what he became, a pawn in the game for al quaeda. he was conditioned to think daddy's militant stance was the propper position for a good mohammedan, was indoctrinated with the poisonous ideals of al quaeda from a young age, and would almost certainly have followed in his daddy's footsteps, had he not been hanging out in a target zone on that fateful day. while it is unfiortunate that any youth is indoctrinated with hateful madness, it is NOT unfortunate that the indoctrinated youth catches a missile strike before he can act out his dreamed of martydom passion play. had alawaki junior not died from a predator strike he would most likely be plotting some new action against some innocent target, which is what he told people he planned to do, as revenge for the death of dear ol' daddy.
mohammedanism is very much like the militant and ignorant racism of the ku klux klan. it is transmitted from parents to children. despite all the gentle words and sweet sweet multiculturalism that is crammed down everybody's throat, racism still thrives in america. if the KKK became aas indiscrimminately violent, militant and rabid as al quaeda in yemen, and siezed military control of a large territory, most of the dinkbags who are weeping for the death of poor alawaaki junior would delight in the carpet bombing that eliminated Ku-Klux-Klandia. even if numerous children were killed in the process. the ultimate elimination of the nazi menace and japanese dreams of empire cost a great many innocent children's lives. in the end far fewer innocents died from the war than would have died from the results of capitulation, and most importantly, the innocent victims were on the side of barbarism, NOT THE SIDE OF CIVILIZED SOCIETY!!
anyone who would prefer the opposite result is on the side of barbarism themselves. in a perfect world there would be no barbaric religious cults, no children indoctrinated with blind hatred for anything that is different from their tiny tribal group, and we would not even need predator drones, guns, or knives. we would all live in harmony with nature, prancing naked through fields of wildflowers and holding hands with all races and all creeds. let me know when you figure out how to make that shit happen. until then hard choices have to be made, and it takes hard men to find the stones to do it. all you gentle civilized non-violent sorts dont have what it takes to be in the shit, so step back and try to keep the hard men from going too far, thats why you exist in the first place to act as a conscience for the hard men. once you step forward and demand the hard men stop making the difficult decisions you are helping to destroy the society that protects you from the real bad people who would LOVE to face your soft gentle non-violent asses in battle. once al quaeda abu saif, and all the other assholes in the world renounce violence for good, and cast away all their arms, and their dreams of conquest, then maybe we can talk about dismantling the aircraft carriers and stealth bombers you so despise.