and yet, humiliation is the best way to make an enemy Mockery and humiliation are not equivalent. Humiliation implies some degradation of people under our cont

and yet, humiliation is the best way to make an enemy Mockery and humiliation are not equivalent. Humiliation implies some degradation of people under our control. We should of course avoid such behavior, but public mockery need not entail humiliation. I'm pretty sure that folks willing to commit acts of terrorism are already enemies. But I do agree that this sort of messaging has to be careful to differentiate the nitwit terrorists and the larger community from which they might draw support. Mock the former, not the latter. I think its much better to have nothing to do with these people. Alas, this does not seem politically feasible. Governments that fail to communicate anything to the public about terrorists are at risk of falling victim to demagogues in other parties.