In war on terror, Genghis Khan's rules apply

NY Daily News ^ | May 31 2004 | Bill O'Reilly

[knighthawk]

Ping

[Dutch Boy]

What would happen if they took the hardest of the hardcore out into the desert and make them sit in a circle. They take one of them and sew him up snuggly in a fresh hide, ala the Apache method. As the hide slowly dried, it crushes the guy inside. I'll wager the others watching will become very talkative.

[Cobra64]

Similar to what Blackjack Pershing did in the Philipines in the early 1900s.

[AMDG&BVMH]

"During the 13th century, he conquered most of civilization with an army of fewer than 100,000 Mongol horsemen. "

by terrorizing civilized peoples, raping women, burning villages. He WAS a terrorist!!

Besides, did the Mongols succeed in leaving their "civilization" behind in the conquered territories? Where are they today? Except in their intellectual off-spring such as Osama.

The author is trying to make a point, but this is NOT a good analogy!

[txzman]

Khan's army was notoriously brutal. In fact Rome fell in part beacuse after losing a first battle in horrible way - the stories that spread made it impossible to recruit another decent army - since all were citizen soldiers.

[The Sons of Liberty]

This is what I have said from the time of the First World Trade Center attack. You cannot fight Osama and Al Queda following the rules of the "Marquis de Queensberry". Al Queda knows no bounds of savagery and if we try to fight by Gentlemen's rules, then the outcome will be like that of the British Empire in the 18th and 19th centuries. They lost their empire because they marched straight and stiffly into battle, while the Patriots hid behind trees and cotton bales and used hit and run tactics and guerrilla warfare. They preserved their status as gentlemen warriors, but lost the war. The War on Terror is one that we cannot afford to lose, both for our sake and that of our children.

The members of Al Queda do not fall under any of the provisions of the Geneva Conventions and do not deserve to be treated accordingly. Their treatment of our prisoners have not conformed to the Geneva Conventions and certainly their treatment of non-combatants such as Berg and Pearl have not.

Extract as much information from them as possible, execute them publicly as a warning to others that might want to follow in their footsteps, and bury them in pig fat! Any bleeding heart liberals who don't like it, can be damned.

[arthurus]

It is an excellent analogy. What civilization do you expect OBL to leave behind?

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Winning hearts and minds.

See the vehicles behind the troops.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Actual caption

A patrol from the Second Battalion of the 1st marine division searches for road-side bombs near a highway connecting Amman and Baghdad, near Falluja on May 31, 2004. REUTERS/ Nikola Solic

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

An Iraqi policeman aims his machine gun towards a crowd of Iraqis celebrating next to three cars, riddled with bullet holes after gunmen fired on a convoy of sport utility vehicles in Baghdad, Iraq (news - web sites), Sunday May 30, 2004. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Michaela DeSoucey, 26, a graduate student in sociology at Northwestern University sits outside a coffee shop in Evanston, Ill., with her dog Mickey Thrsday, May 27, 2004. DeSoucey, who would like to see even more media coverage of the Iraq (news - web sites) prison abuse scandal, says, 'I think people are too afraid to confront what's going on beyond their coffee and muffin.' (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)

Yes the Media is suppressing in the USA such stories as this:

BIN LADEN CUT-THROATS

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

update.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

A very heavy discussion over here:

Christian lied about faith to survive Saudi siege

[SheLion]

Thanks for the ping!!!!!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

More images:

Supporters of radical Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr stage a counter-demonstration in Najaf, May 29, 2004. Earlier in the day some 200 people had protested against an assassination attempt against Sadreddin al-Kabanji. Witnesses said that Al-Kabanji, a critic of Sadr who supports Iraq (news - web sites)'s senior ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, was targetted by Mehdi Army gunmen as he left the Imam Ali mosque after Friday prayers. No one appeared to be injured in the incident. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra

[McGavin999]

The ACLU would prefer it to be death.....as long as it's the death of others and not them personally. They seem to think they can negotiate with the terrorists. We'll they'd get a few of their pet projects approved by Bin Laden, there would be no nativity scenes anywhere, nor would there be a display of the ten commandments. Instead, burquaed women would beg on the streets, there would be school prayer FIVE times each day, and the only school book would be the Koran.

What fools, the ACLU would be the first to be beheaded, unbelievers are scorned even more than infidels.

[evets]

In Sept 1999, (911?)
A great King of Terror will come from the sky.
He will bring back the great King Genghis Khan.
Before and after Mars rules happily.
Nostrodamus (c10:q72)

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

fyi

[Libertarianize the GOP]

I am not sure Genghis Khan makes a good model. He started with nothing to defend, nothing to lose and his rules of warfare are based on that. We on the other hand have much to defend.