I’ve tried to fix the missing hyperlink problem.

Now I don’t know what the exact functional relationship is between al-Qaeda’sideology and feedback. We have been told that the relatinship between brutality and resistance is positive: the more you fight the Jihad, the more you encourage it. This was almost became an article of faith among self-described “sophisticates”. But what if the relationship was inverse, flipped over certain ranges or was an aggregate function where each behaved differently?

My intuition is that a judicious combination of conciliation and resistance will bring the best results. It will be necessary to redress what needs redress; but it will also be necessary to hold fast where resistance is indicated.