"Local people called the Americans ``terrorists,'' ``mercenaries'' or ``Jews'' - a word used colloquially in Iraq and other Arab countries to refer to Israelis."

Like when I treat myself to a hearty anti-Muslim rant, I am of course speaking colloquially about the Indonesians.

AP and the Guardian are quite the duo.

oderint dum metuant

Mike, no you want the fear, but not the hate. Read more Machiavelli.

Orrin was right - the time to kick butt would have been during the war. Harsh measures are better done all at once, not incrementally. That kind of creeping harshness only inflames the situation, never defuses it. If we have to get harsh now, better to apply overwhelming pressure, not "send messages."

Chris:

Yeah, you have a point, and I have read that - it is not necessary to be loved, but it is important not to be hated; and you cannot make people love you, but you can make them fear you.

He also notes that:

he can endure very well being feared whilst he is not hated, which will always be as long as he abstains from the property of his citizens and subjects and from their women. But when it is necessary for him to proceed against the life of someone, he must do it on proper justification and for manifest cause, but above all things he must keep his hands off the property of others, because men more quickly forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony.

A few targeted raids shouldn't be a problem; it's accidental killings, "it's all about the oil", and insults to their women that will inflame things (whether any of these occur in truth or not).

Here's the pertinent Machiavelli:

Someone could question how it happened that Agathocles and anyone like him, after infinite betrayals and cruelties, could live for a long
time secure in his fatherland, defend himself against external enemies, and never be conspired against by his citizens, inasmuch as many
others have not been able to maintain their states through cruelty even in peaceful times, not to mention uncertain times of war. I believe
that this comes from cruelties badly used or well used. Those can be called well used (if it is permissible to speak well of evil) that are
done at a stroke, out of the necessity to secure oneself, and then are not persisted in but are turned to as much utility for the subjects as
one can. Those cruelties are badly used which, though few in the beginning, rather grow with time than are eliminated. Those who
observe the first mode can have some remedy for their state with God and with men, as had Agathocles; as for the others it is impossible
for them to maintain themselves.
-Chapter VIII, Of Those Who Have Attained a Principality through Crimes

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