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Originally Posted by fish78
What I am trying to do is avoid killing them all. My thiought is, there there seems to be a great emphasise placeed upon these "spiritual" leaders. Sadr, Sistani, and some others, my thought is that with out leaders the masses will have no direction and would be easier to pacify. So as to him being the problem or the symptom, I tend to view him as the problem. There are others.
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Nature, like Islam, abhors a vacuum. Kill the leader and another will rise to take his place. Kill the movement and there is nothing to lead. The problem is not Al Sadr or any of the leaders, the problem is what created the conditions that allowed them to rise to power in the first place. The leaders are irritants in the short term and these fundamentalist movements will go on forever with new leaders unless the movement is killed. Killing the terrorists will depleat their strenght in the short term, but kill the reason for the movement, Islamic fundamentalism, and you control the problem and cut it down to more manageable factions.