Marc,
I re-read the paper last night and yes I agree with you. But he is talking about our (US) system not the enemies. In fact all his writings have consistently said that you must focus on the physical side (physical restraints) because that is the only thing you can actually have some predictable effect on. Mental concepts such as laws,rules,ethics are subject to change and usually will (the holy man will receive a vision from God to change things) once the physical threat of destruction is brought into play. But just to be safe I am going to ask him. May not be this week and it will depend on his schedule but I am pretty sure what he is going to say, he even teaches it this way in his SMART Wars/SMART Strategies class.