David Petraeus' Bright Idea: Give Terrorists Weapons to Beat Terrorists

[JDPriestly]

4. Petraeus' plan is a rather convoluted form of appeasement for hateful, backward,

religious fanatics. In short, it's a stupid idea.

Petraeus wants to buy off people who are at the moment joining with forces that are opposed to our interests by giving them what they want: weapons. That's the worst kind of appeasement.

His solution sounds clever: try to get two competing segments of a large and very dangerous bunch of fanatics to fight with each other, hoping that the one segment will ultimately do the other in.

He seems to think that will either destroy or at least keep busy that bunch of very violent extremists.

It won't work out as he hopes.

It will just help them become better at the violent terrorist schemes they concoct to avoid becoming part of the 21st century. These fanatics will just become better versed at fighting and will have more sophisticated weapons to fight with.

Petraeus misses the point, which is that all these extremist groups want to impose their religion and their backward way of life on others.

Giving arms, selling arms, to any of them is sharing in their cruelty, their crimes and their unrealistic attempt to create an Islamic empire.

Petraeus is a fool if he wants to arm any Muslim fanatics. Not a good idea to arm fanatics of any religion or belief. When they finish killing off the people in their own communities who dare to defy their authority, they will move on and kill people in their neighbors' communities and maybe even us.

Keep weapons out of the hands of terrorists. Try to keep materials they can use to make weapons out of their hands too.

You can't make friends with people who like to kill. It's not smart.