Decommissioning Terror 1

This is the first in a suite of DoubleQuotes that I've created in following up on two recent stories. The first is the suggestion from Secretary of State Rice that Europe should provide funds to pension off terrorists who are willing to "retire" from killing Israelis...

which compares and contrasts interestingly with the strategy by which the Palestinians decommissioned members of Black September, as narrated by Bruce Hoffman of RAND, one of our finer observers of global terror...

but it was the announcement of a Yemeni judge's successful application of theological dialogue to the same ends which really triggered this series, and I'll address it in the next DoubleQuotes in the series.