Quote Originally Posted by Husar
Well, I'd sit down at the table first and then ask them what they want instead of blowing them up before they can reach any table. You can make them lower their expectations at a table but you can't as long as you keep making a propaganda war since propaganda always has a tendancy to extremism. Once they see you are willing to lower your demands a bit, they will either lower theirs a bit as well or I'd say blow them up.
But do at least give them a chance.
Well you can shoot them before they reach the table, you are proving that terrorism works, what use is talking when you are the only one giving in? They will only use a more extreme of terrorism to get even more. A pretty hardline dutch collumnist (wants to completily eradicate the ghaza strip hehe) used this local story and I think it's great as a example;

‘One day, according to this legend, an elderly Bedouin man discovered that by eating turkey he could restore his virility. So he bought himself a turkey and he kept it around the tent, and every day he watched it grow. He stuffed it with food, thinking, Wow, I am really going to be a bull.

One day, though, the turkey was stolen. So the Bedouin called his sons together and said, “Boys, we are in great danger now—terible danger. My turkey’s been stolen.”

The boys laughed and said, “Father, what do you need a turkey for?” He said, “Never mind, never mind. It is not important why I need the turkey, all that is important is that it has been stolen, and we must get it back.”

But his sons ignored him and forgot about the turkey. A few weeks later, the old man’s camel was stolen. His sons came to him and said, “Father, your camel’s been stolen, what should we do?”

And the old man said, “Find my turkey.”

A few weeks later, the old man’s horse was stolen, and the sons came and said, “Father, your horse was stolen, what should we do?”

He said, “Find my turkey.”

Finally, a few weeks later, someone raped his daughter. The father went to his sons and said, “It is all because of the turkey. When they saw that they could take my turkey, we lost everything.”’