Hint: it's not reason with them. Noted expert Ralp Peters (I've read his stuff, it's good) has traveled the world and knows that the solution is to kill them. Read the essay. The rise of female humans to near equal status in the west is an irreconciliable affront to these midevilists.

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The motivation for the Palestinian Authority and all the other terrorist groups is power, said Peters. If suicide bombing is so heroic and so important, why aren't the leaders of Hamas and other organizations strapping on bombs? Why aren't the middle aged guys strapping on bombs? They are very cynically ... identifying the most troubled young people, those who can be molded, and cynically turning them into rebels," Peters said.

"When a man believes that God is whispering in his ear and telling him to kill, you are not going to be able to persuade him by whispering in the other ear," Peters said of apocalyptic terrorists.

Peters said that not all people can be reasoned with and this affects the way that they must be dealt with.

"Apocalyptic terrorists must be destroyed. There is no alternative to killing the hardcore believers, and it may be necessary to kill thousands of them, if we are to protect the lives of millions of our own citizens," Peters has written.

"If on Sept. 11, the hijackers had hit only the Pentagon, much of the world would have cheered, and even our allies would have snickered," he said. However, when they attacked the World Trade Center, it was so graphic and visible that the whole world could picture it happening to them. And this, he said, is the how apocalyptic terrorists ultimately sow the seeds of their own destruction.

"The apocalyptic terrorist will always over-reach, they will always give the world a reason to react so forcefully that they will ultimately be destroyed," he said. They do this, he said, because they believe that they are God's messengers.

When apocalyptic terrorists speak about their goals, Peters said, do not listen to them. Many times, without even realizing it, they are being dishonest. Their real goal, no matter what they say their goal may be, is ultimately "to jumpstart Armageddon."

"What matters is that the world is getting an unexpected lesson in American resolve. It is the primary task of our present and future leaders not to let that resolve weaken," Peters has written. "The lesson must be lasting. And ferocity is the ultimate guarantor of peace."