Thanks for posting and thanks to Brian Michael Jenkins for his service. He offers concrete examples and potential solutions to convince some. The success of any program must be measureable, but how do you measure philosophy of individuals, in the greatest collective in the history of civilization? What is the motivation to renounce the collective, to abandon the strong horse?
I side with Lurker's comments on this.
The hierarchy in THIS collective will not be converted. Trickle down annihilation should be our first option. A dead Saddam is sending a message, with rule of law legitimacy (ping Ramsey). A dead Nasrallah (for those too queasy to take out his boss) would send another, with rule of the jungle legitimacy.
Measureable results.
The hierarchy in THIS collective will not be converted.
Very true. But the author keeps asking thoughout the book, Do we have to kill them one at a time, or is there a better way? And again he states that the jihadist and their movement is not a monolith, there are differing levels of commitment, and he want us (the west..civilized world) to address those who's commitment is less that absolute.
It goes without saying that the al-Zawahiri's will never change and should just be shot.