Friendship cures terrorism. No really, it does. According to interrogators and negotiators. The best way to get info out of high terrorist, is to earn their trust and/or appeal to their humanity.
Things like offering to care for their children and givin their families green cards. Also reducing sentences and things like that.
If only this was in the end… No brony would feel bad or disagree on conversion Starlight into good, because it properly fix everything without lose ends or script requirments.