The zero-sum effect.

The General points out an example of what I described as the "zero sum game" yesterday.

John "assrocket" Hinderaker at the popular Powerline blog writes;

There are two kinds of terrorists: live terrorists and dead ones. The basic object of anti-terror policy should be to turn the former into the latter. As long as that process is proceeding satisfactorily, it should continue. The time for a cease-fire, it seems to me, is when Hezbollah has more or less run out of live terrorists. I don't think that moment has yet arrived.

And the effect is that we'll eventually get to zero terrorists?

"They wrote the names of the dead children on their plastic shrouds. 'Mehdi Hashem, aged seven Qana' was written in felt pen on the bag in which the little boy's body lay. 'Hussein al-Mohamed, aged 12 Qana', 'Abbas al-Shalhoub, aged one Qana.' And when the Lebanese soldier went to pick up Abbas's little body, it bounced on his shoulder as the boy might have done on his father's shoulder on Saturday. In all, there were 56 corpses brought to the Tyre government hospital and other surgeries, and 34 of them were children. When they ran out of plastic bags, they wrapped the small corpses in carpets. Their hair was matted with dust, most had blood running from their noses.

I simply don't get why Americans can't understand the root cause of terrorism. Stupid fucks, like assrocket, sit behind their monitors and flex their muscles as if they actually have a stake in this fight.

They don't - they are the worst sort of pussy cowards.. these are children.. the same as any kids you'd see in any playground anywhere in the United States - bombed to death. Blame the Israelis.. or blame Hezbollah for supposedly firing rockets from the apartment buildings, blame whoever you want, but the net result is that you've just created a bunch more very upset people that pulled their dead children out of rubble.. and they will not stop until they kill those who they hold responsible.

I know I wouldn't...