Posted on 08/21/2006 7:51:01 PM PDT by ruthles
Saturday, August 12, 2006 How To Negotiate With Terrorists
This brief blog entry takes you through a series of negotiations over time between peacemakers and terrorists:
A peacemaker walks up to the left side of a line. A terrorist walks up to the right side of the line. The peacemaker introduces himself. The terrorist kills him.
A peacemaker walks up to the left side of the line. A terrorist walks up to the right side of the line. The peacemaker asks, "why did you kill my friend?" The terrorist kills him and rapes his wife.
A peacemaker walks up to the left side of the line. A terrorist walks up to the right side of the line. The peacemaker says, "Stop that!" The terrorist kills him, rapes his daughter and kills his wife.
A peacemaker walks up to the left side of the line. A terrorist walks up to the right side of the line. The peacemaker says, "I'll pay you $1000 if you stop attacking us." The terrorist agrees to the deal, takes the $1000, and kills him.
A peacemaker walks up to the left side of the line. A terrorist walks up to the right side of the line. The peacemaker appeals to the United Nations. The United Nations says the peacemaker is at fault. The terrorist kills him.
A peacemaker walks up to the left side of the line. A terrorist walks up to the right side of the line. The peacemaker now has a gun, and threatens to use it. Other peacemakers start chanting the old 60's whine, "Can't we all just get along?" The peacemaker hesitates. The terrorist kills him.
A peacemaker walks up to the left side of the line. A terrorist walks up to the right side of the line. The peacemaker tries to convince his peacemaker friends that the terrorists aren't going to respond to negotiations, but they insist that if he kills the terrorist it'll just make the other terrorists mad. The peacemaker reluctantly agrees to try negotiating again. The terrorist kills him., his entire family, and his neighbor's family.
A heated debate now ensues between the peacemakers who want to be nice to the terrorists and the peacemakers who believe that there can never be peace until the terrorists are all dead. While they are debating, the terrorists kill 15 more peacemakers.
A peacemaker walks up to the left side of the line. A terrorist walks up to the right side of the line. The peacemaker asks himself, "Which is more important: being liked by everyone, or protecting my family?" The terrorist pulls a knife to kill the peacemaker, but the peacemaker pulls a gun and kills the terrorist first. The United Nations condemns the peacemaker's use of unproportional force. Many of his peacemaker friends turn against him.
A peacemaker walks up to the left side of the line. A terrorist walks up to the right side of the line. The peacemaker apologizes for what his friend did to the other terrorist. The terrorist kills him, his entire family and his neighbors, and threatens to destroy the city as soon as they develop a bigger weapon.
A peacemaker refuses to meet at the line because every time a peacemaker goes to the line the terrorist kills him. A terrorist walks up to the right side of the line and fires rockets into the peacemaker's town. The United Nations condemns the way the peacemaker provoked the terrorist by refusing to come to the line and meet with him.
Generations pass and not much changes until one day when the son of a peacemaker decides that the old strategy simply won't work. He walks up to the left side of the line a little early. As the terrorist approaches the right side of the line the peacemaker shoots him. Another terrorist approaches to replace the first, and the peacemaker shoots him too. This scene plays out several more times. Then a terrorist approaches carrying a white flag, but he also has weapons. The peacemaker shoots him. A terrorist next approaches with a ceasefire resolution from the U.N. The peacemaker shoots him also. A large group of terrorists approach and the peacemaker shoots them all and drops a nuclear bomb on the city they came from. The peacemaker continues killing the terrorists until the terrorists are all dead.
There is finally peace on earth and the United Nations takes the credit.
(No peacemakers or terrorists were harmed during the writing of this blog.)
Fairly good synopsis, imo, and had the 'happy' ending, to boot.
Too bad...
Very well done and different.
Drop the friggin bomb on them first thing and skip all the other crap. Dempnstrate the will to win. Do it soon.
Now it's surreal.
Was this article written by a Serb?
I came across this earlier, and loved it! Follow the link in the comments section to another great read. I think it's in one of Hurricane Harry's posts.
Very well done and well written. Everyone should read this.
Oops, here's the link to another great read.
http://atlantarofters.blogspot.com/2006/01/american-islamic-leaders-warn-of-anti.html
Uh, was that a deliberate insult, or just an accidental one?
I thought the piece was pretty good.
Link?
Well, it is good for a laugh and some wishfull bliss but the facts are too hard to take. The killing will never stop until there is no profit to it.
EXCELLENT post, ruthles.
Too bad it's a lesson that, semmingly, will never be learned (note my tag line).
PRoP PING!
How to reason with a terrorist?
Shoot holes in him, then hunt down and kill his family.
It does not help to have the fifth column of the MSM shilling for the other side in this, either.
We have to wait until the use of such is justified, even in the eyes of our enemies and those who are simply not our 'friends'.
That places us in a reactive, second strike stance. Not a good position, imo, but reality.
While there are few nations on earth we could not readily whip individually with conventional weapons, we cannot take them all on at once that way. No military on the planet could take on all the others at once.
Once nukes start flying around, though, all bets are off. Not something to be undertaken lightly, imo, and some restraint will have to be used when the time comes or the end product will be worse than the MAD scenarios.
Please fill me in on the gray areas as well as the sublime metaphors and subtle moral compasses involved in this struggle. I want to be able to read the words of one of your calibre and acuity. Out with kincaid and in with Shakespeare. I'll be waiting.....
Wait . Isn't August 22 coming tomorrow? Will the wackos seek to alter world opinion on that date?
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