Posted on 09/28/2014 11:21:10 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Many people, even alleged conservatives, blame the West when it comes to explaining Islamic terrorism. If it wasn’t the crusades, it was the end of World War One, when Winston Churchill and T. E. Lawrence (of Arabia), among others, carved up the map of the modern Middle East.
But if the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the creation of modern Iraq, Syria, Jordan, and Palestine (eventually Israel) were a cause of movements like ISIS, why was the region relatively quiescent after the First World War? Indeed, Lawrence, in 1922, predicted that even among the ever restless Arabs, there would “be no more serious trouble for at least seven years,” which, in those territories for which Britain was responsible, proved broadly true. In 1935, he wrote to Robert Graves, “How well the Middle East has done: it, more than any other part of the world, has gained from the war.”
Lawrence thought that West had little to fear from Arab nationalism, because the Arabs were “even less stable than the Turks” and if “properly handled [the Arabs] would remain in a state of political mosaic, a tissue of small jealous principalities incapable of cohesion and yet always ready to combine against an outside force.”
The British were used to putting down jihadists, whether in the Sudan, or in India, or even 1920s Iraq, and did so with an eye on frugality. Crushing jihadists, it was thought (and proved), needn’t be expensive. When Lawrence noted a “Wahhabi-like Moslem form of Bolshevism” welling up in Southern Iraq, it was the RAF that dispelled it, using on-the-ground spotters like John Bagot Glubb, whose Southern Desert Camel Corps, made up of Iraqi border Arabs, later patrolled the border to keep the Wahhabist Ikhwan out....
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
Obama would have already fired anyone who was as competent as Pershing.
If we have our eschatology correct, this is all leading to a final clash with Israel at center stage, in order to close out the age of the Gentiles.
What a great Saviour we have, still calling on people to repent and turn to him.
Pershing wanted to win.
Mustard Gas?
Lawrence had no part in carving up the Middle East. He opposed it. Try Winston Churchill and Gertrude Bell.
In the Muslim world, the enemy of the enemy is not necessarily your friend. Usually it applies only to Muslims against an infidel enemy. This Spectator guy does not know what he is talking about.
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That will put fear into the hearts of our enemies.
Any evidence or documents that Pershing ever did this?
Seems a waste of a perfectly fine pig IMHO. Wouldn’t just the muck from the pig barn in the same hole be good enough?
Interesting history. The multi-faceted, hydra-headed, asymmetric Islam is more cohesive than it has ever been. Western civilization is trending toward disarray.
Too many people today don’t realize that war is hell. And the more hell you cause for the enemy the less likely he will keep the will to fight. To win you must be willing to rain absolute destruction on the enemy and all that they hold dear. Show them that continuing to fight against us will bring catastrophic destruction to them and theirs.
From my reading the pig thing is a myth, no evidence of it actually occurring. But I will give the author a pass on it because the gist of his article on Pershing is correct. Pershing, like many other officers of his generation, understood the basics of counter insurgency warfare. The American and European militaries of the time had vast experience with successful COIN operations.
How simple. Then what would be anyone’s point in striving if all is pre-destined?
Swine.
Many of the commanders back then had alot experience fighting irregular forces, Indian Wars, Moro,etc. Lawton, MacArthur, Jr.
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