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2003-08-24 Terror Networks

An example of successfully dealing with terrorists

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Posted by Vivek 2003-08-24 6:31:05 AM|| || Front Page|| [8 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Hunt them down and kill them,no mercy.Sounds reasonable to me.

Posted by raptor 2003-8-24 7:26:41 AM|| 2003-8-24 7:26:41 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 When General Black Jack Pershing was stationed in the Phillipines his troops were being attacked by Islamic Moro tribesmen.After capturing 6 of these Moro's,he tied them to steaks,dug a pit in front of them.He then slaughtered a couple of pigs as the blood pooled in the bottom of the pit Pershing had members of a Firing Squad dip thier bullets in the pigs blood.After executeing the Islamists he threw the bodies in the pit,threw the pig carcass'on top of the bodies and buried them.There were no more attacks for 30-40 years.

Think ole'Black Jack may have been on to something?

Posted by raptor 2003-8-24 8:56:06 AM|| 2003-8-24 8:56:06 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Re: Pershing & Gill...
I always though they were just being cute, but mebbe this is what the wymyns mean when they turn the old saying on its head:
"A hard man is good to find!"
8^)

Posted by .com 2003-8-24 11:29:54 AM|| 2003-8-24 11:29:54 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 http://www.suntimes.com/output/steyn/cst-edt-steyn24.html

Posted by Matt 2003-8-24 1:02:17 PM|| 2003-8-24 1:02:17 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 The Sikh problem is nothing like what we face today. The total Sikh population is in the tens of millions vs 1 billion Muslims. Sikhs are a generally peaceful people not given to nihilistic violence or forcible conversions of unbelievers. They did not have dozens of Sikh countries supporting their separatist campaign. Sikhs did not carry out mass killings against civilians in the way that Muslims have done - most of their attacks were against Indian officials and members of the Indian security establishment. Operationally, the Sikh movement was headquartered within India itself, which made their suppression relatively easy, from a logistical standpoint. Islamist terror is funded by private donations at Muslim mosques all over the world, as well as by surreptitious contributions from various Muslim donor countries, as well as Christian charities that provide aid on an ecumenical basis to Muslim charities.

(Background: Sikh separatism is the result of British decisions where, instead of partitioning India across religious and ethnic lines, colonial administrators chose to bequeath Britain's South Asian empire to a Hindi-speaking elite. India and China are the last empires still in existence - the difference is that much of China was actually a unitary state for thousands of years, whereas India in its present form is essentially a British creation. One can understand the reasoning - with Iran to the west, Russia to the north and China to the east, only a unitary Indian state could avoid being nibbled away to death by the major regional powers.

However, for the nationalists among the major ethnic groups in India, no amount of geostrategic reasoning will make up for the fact that their national aspirations were thwarted by the decisions of British colonial administrators. The self-rule achieved by nationalists in many of today's European countries never became a reality for India's many nationalities. And the thwarting of this dream is why some of them continue to fight the Indian government even to this day.

* Which is how the British found the region - a mishmash of nations that they incorporated into a single administrative entity)

Posted by Zhang Fei 2003-8-24 1:02:22 PM|| 2003-8-24 1:02:22 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 One would also point out that PM. Ghandi paid with her life for her actions. Hardly the ultimate recommendation.

Posted by Chuck 2003-8-24 9:46:37 PM|| [http://blog.simmins.org] 2003-8-24 9:46:37 PM|| Front Page Top

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