[joebuck]

"For years, there has been an unwritten rule in the cruel war of government-versus-guerrilla. You can kill the men on the street, the bomb-makers and gunmen, but the leadership was allowed to survive."

I would love to see even a shred of evidence that such an "unwritten rule" ever existed anywhere other than Fisk's imagination.

[Don Joe]

"For years, there has been an unwritten rule in the cruel war of government-versus-guerrilla. You can kill the men on the street, the bomb-makers and gunmen, but the leadership was allowed to survive."

I would love to see even a shred of evidence that such an "unwritten rule" ever existed anywhere other than Fisk's imagination.

I think he's drawing on the ancient maxim, "Only a King can kill a King", but in the process, he's elevating terrorist scum to the prestige of Kings of nations.

Perhaps that's why he didn't quote the maxim, but chose rather to bastardize it.