Jere Krischel
Aug 22, 2017 · 1 min read

I’ve always thought that our approach to fighting zealous enemies has failed to consider where their weak points are. They have no fear of their own deaths, but they do have fears — and if you want to wage war on them, you need to identify, and zero in on those fears.

Of course, this ranges awfully close to “cruel and unusual” in many respects, so it might not be something that a modern western democracy can stomach, but I would imagine that if say, China had a terrorist problem, they’d have no problem announcing a policy of killing every family member, three generations up and down, of every terrorist they ever caught. Or the complete destruction of ten mosques for every terror attack. Or the removal of every toddler from the home of terrorist relatives and having them raised by Jews. Or ban all food imports into an area except pork and shrimp.

The trick is that to fight the idea, sometimes you have to realize that *their lives* aren’t what they’re trying to preserve. They’re focused on *their beliefs*, which includes raising up the Caliphate and removing infidels from the world, or at least enslaving them. If you can find what they adore, cherish, and value, you’ve at least got a better target than simply more dead jihadis.

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    Jere Krischel

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    Socially liberal, fiscally conservative, born again carnivore, musician, firearms instructor and skeptical civil rights activist.