There are growing signs that the kidnap of Henning is controversial even among Islamic extremists who have been sympathetic to Isis's tactics.
He calls her thesis sound anti-communist history, not at all sympathetic to the strategy, tactics and orientation of those labor activists who were influenced most by the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia.
AIDS activists persuaded the F.D.A. to relax its policy on experimental drugs in part by relying on dramatic protest tactics and sympathetic media coverage; members of ACT-UP and other groups covered themselves with fake blood and staged "die-ins" in front of the White House and the National Institutes of Health.
These lower-court decisions have for the most part not yet been tested on appeal, and there is reason to think that appeals courts and the Supreme Court will prove more sympathetic to the government's tactics and arguments.
'I see the logic,' he says, which is Gove-speak for 'no'; charm is his weapon, and his deadliest tactic is to sound sympathetic while tearing your argument to shreds.
In dealing with the riots, police have avoided harsh tactics and some have even appeared sympathetic.
The Taliban use a range of tactics, including paying relatives who are sympathetic to the insurgents, to lure Afghan security forces into cooperating with them.
On his weekly radio program, Mr. Chavez, himself a former army colonel and paratrooper who led a failed coup attempt in 1992, not only condoned the rebellion, but sounded downright sympathetic to its leaders and their goals and tactics.
It could be a profitable tactic, given that the court has been sympathetic to tennis players in the past.
While the President has clearly put an end to cruel tactics, Craig said that Obama "is somewhat sympathetic to the spies' argument that their mission and circumstances are different".
