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Indeed. But Cohen's entire argument is that rich idealistic Westerners are deluded by thinking that if only we could convince the terrorists that we're nice people, everything would be hunky dory.
No. There may indeed be people like that, since there's nothing so daft that nobody will believe it, but that is not a widely-held view, and arguing against that view is pointless.
The people we have to reach aren't the terrorists. The people we have to reach are the people who are fodder for their recruiters. Those are the people who we need to understand, and who we need to help to understand us.
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