[thetruckster]

"Is dialogue effective in dealing with evil?"

Maybe we need to go a little farther back in history.

I remember a story about 40 days in the desert between the Son of God and Satan. Because Jesus' commitment was so deep and so profound (and what we would consider arrogant nowadays), his dialog was pretty darned effective.

[LibertarianInExile]

There were a couple other chapters in that book.

One of my favorites involved a dialogue that was particularly ineffective until force was applied:

And Moses said unto Pharaoh, "Let my people go."