UK top cop: we should negotiate with Al Qaeda

10:29 am on May 30, 2008 by Infidelesto

Dhimmi of the day…

TimesOnline

One of Britain’s most senior policemen has said that the Government should negotiate with al-Qaeda in a strategy to end its campaign of violence.

In an interview with The Guardian, Sir Hugh Orde, head of the Police Service of Northern Ireland, said that he could not think of a single terrorism campaign in history that ended without negotiation.

Sir Hugh, reportedly a front-runner to be the next commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, said that 30 years of tackling the IRA convinced him that policing - detecting plots and arresting people - was not enough alone to defeat terrorists.

He told the newspaper: “If you want my professional assessment of any terrorism campaign, what fixes it is talking and engaging and judging when the conditions are right for that to take place.

“Is that a naive statement? (YES - ed) I don’t think it is … It is the reality of what we face. If somebody can show me any terrorism campaign where it has been policed out, I’d be happy to read about it, because I can’t think of one.”

What a total Jackass…He can’t “think of one” campaign where the use of force actually worked.  Um, Iraq? Afghanistan? Taliban? We seem to be doing a dam good job at killing the bad guys.

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