[Pikamax]

John Arquilla is professor of defense analysis at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey. The views expressed are his alone. Contact us at insight@sfchronicle.com.

[ccmay]

Thank you for that trenchant analysis, Mr. Chamberlain. Now go to hell.

-ccm

[aculeus]

We should be grateful this idiot is not part of the Administration.

(Save this comment for the 2008 campaign.)

[Recovering_Democrat]

John Arquilla, grade A brainfart.

Sure, John, negotiate with terrorists...great idea. You go first. (These were the first people to generate hatred for anyone talking to the Iranians who could help free hostages.)

[dead]

So if bin Laden were to call off his dogs of war, it would be a very good thing

And if my aunt had any balls, she'd be my uncle.

[mtbopfuyn]

John Boy voted for Kerry, right?

[zarf]

John Arquilla is professor of defense analysis at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey.

[Steveone]

That would mean terrorism won !

[A message]

The moral imperative that should drive us is a sincere desire to end the long suffering of the people of Iraq and Afghanistan. Official figures suggest that 30,000 innocent noncombatants have been killed since March 2003 in Iraq alone.

No sir, the moral imperative is to stand firm against and seek to destroy evil.

OBL is an evil man.

Seeking to make truce with evil is moral weakness and human fallacy.

[mylife]

Im surprised it took the appeasers this long to crawl out

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Excuse me, Mr. Arquilla? Just how do we negotiate a peace deal with a dead terrorist? *Smirk*

[FreedomNeocon]

No way... some pansy-ass metro-sexual punk from LA-LA-Land wants to take it anally from Osama.

Shock I am... SHOCKED I SAY!!!

[svcw]

Sorry hard to write with tears of laughter .... what a colossal idiot (no offense to idiots).

[Radix]

Someone is off of their meds.

[Dog Gone]

We pretty much had a truce with him before 9/11. He'd attack us. We wouldn't respond.

He'd like that again.

John Arquilla is a fool.

[tomahawk]

Better yet, we should surrender and put our heads on the chopping block to be beheaded, as Islam requires of infidels who don't embrace the death cult.

[Paleo Conservative]

Peace in our time!

[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

Let's put another Clinton back in the White House to show how we prefer inaction to terrorism.

[righttackle44]

Bin Laden's offer is a clear signal that he
acknowledges a buttocks whipping.

This so-called military expert doesn't
seem to realize that you don't offer
a truce when you're winning.

Away with the offer. Continue to hunt
down the son of a camel and bomb the
enemy when we get the chance.

(I have not served. My tagline honors my son and my cousin.)

[DarkSavant]

John Arquilla is professor of defense analysis at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey.

Somebody please fire this clown.

[Skip Ripley]

John's never watched any professional wrestling. When the bad guy offers to shake the good guy's hand, he's only doing it so he can throw a sucker punch.

Our counter-terrorism guys shuld be forced to watch a compilation of Ed "the Sheik" Farhat's matches from the 60's and 70's at Detroit's Cobo arena. That guy displayed the terrorist mind set long before Osama came along.