>>>>Everyone that has played the anti-american, wacko card, is eventually taken out, contained or somehow sidelined.
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>>>I agree but I hope it is containment and sidelined, not "taken out" because that just leads to more fanatics and mad men martyrs. Interesting poll results in Iran.
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>>One counter-example. Taking out Hitler, Mussolini and Hirohito seemed to work. Europe and Japan didn't have a backlash of facists.
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>The context, Evan, the context!
>Hitler et. al. were the AGGRESSORS and their people were reduced to near animal state.

Irrelevant. My point was that sometimes the movement collapses without the leader. Violence sometimes settles things.