"Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst.Nations and peoples who forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms." - R. Heinlein

Throughout history, despicable men have taken from others whatever those others have allowed them to take. It is only through acts of force, violent rejection of the premise that the world was theirs for the taking, that these despots have been castigated.

Diplomacy works only when the threat of real action, intolerable to the irrational greedy tyrants, is used as the stick for the carrot of peace to be chosen.