To me it’s really very simple, you have to pay these bastards in the coin of the realm. Unless you deal with them in terms that are important to them, not you, you run the risk of failing to control them. One of their biggest areas of weakness is a religion that believes what someone does to you here can affect your life in the hereafter.
If you’re going to control them in the end you’ll have to use tactics you couldn’t bring yourself to use at first. The only ones who suffer from this inability to do it right in the first place are the innocents that die while you’re screwing up your political courage to deal with the barbarians.
B R A V O!
What the GOOD of this world are sorely lacking now is
courage.
Courage to do what they KNOW must be done to defeat evil
on every front.
Too many would rather feel they have been ‘fair’ than survive. And the evil know that.
This might be the only time in human history where so much of humanity is more afraid of unfairness than death.
We would all do well to remember the ‘Untouchables’ and the cops advice to Ness re. the mob.
“...and THEN what are you prepared to do?”