>>>>>>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.
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>>Irrelevant. My point was that sometimes the movement collapses without the leader. Violence sometimes settles things.
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>Well Hirohito was around for a good long while AFTER WWII. How does that serve your "point"?

He was sidelined by MacArthur. Stripped of any powers, spun to be a person that was a vicitim of the war rather than a cause of it. Then used as a figurehead by MacArthur to unite the Japanese people. Rather masterful. IE he was taken out.

>How did things work out in Korea?... or Viet-Nam?

These support my my point that "taking out the lead of a movement can halt a movement". In neither case was he leader taken out.

>I somehow think that such an event would indeed give rise to countless more martyrs and madmen and make the world a terrible place to live.

To restate my point, taking out the facist leaders in WW2, seems to have killed facism. "Winning" a grinding stalemate against communism, seems to have for most part killed the communist movement. Perhaps the same is possible with the radical, terrorist elements of Islam.