Smasharoo wrote:
Will this deter the capture of future Jordanians,
Of course. As everyone knows "all these people understand is violence," so now they will just pick softer targets, being careful to free Jordanian fighters and providing them safe conduct to the border. You know, just how Israel's hard line with Hezbollah has resulted in that situation being all sunshine, rainbows and puppy dogs. Missiles. Also the occasional missile. Oy, ven you make an omlet?
Yeah. Cause not using violence of any kind against people who do things you don't like has such an amazingly good track record of success. Lol!
I get that this is a hard concept for the PC obsessed to grasp, but in the history of the world, the one thing that has by far the most proven rate of ending violence has been... wait for it... opposing violence. Escalating violence even. And no, it's not because "that's all those people understand", complete with some kind of implication that anyone who adopts the "opposing violence" position is somehow bigoted because of it, but because, by and large, while it's not the only thing people understand, it is the one thing all people understand. There's a pretty long list of wars that only ended when one side was sufficiently defeated militarily that they had no choice but to surrender, yet, only the most simple minded would suggest that this was because "that's all those people understand". What a ridiculous cop out.