If the general ethos about Muslims and Islam are negative, how would the general public react if a Muslim woman was being bullied in public? This experiment was carried out in UK and results showed a small percentage of people would help, but the majority do not care because the victim is a Muslim.
Strikes at population targets (per se) are likely not only to create a counter-productive wave of revulsion abroad and at home, but greatly to increase the risk of enlarging the war with China and the Soviet Union. Destruction of locks and dams, however - if handled right - might offer promise. It should be studied. Such destruction does not kill or drown people. By shallow-flooding the rice, it leads after time to widespread starvation (more than a million) unless food is provided - which we could offer to do 'at the conference table'.
