1 posted on
07/18/2006 7:45:04 AM PDT by
Pokey78
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Steyn ping!
2 posted on
07/18/2006 7:48:04 AM PDT by
Pokey78
(‘FREE [INSERT YOUR FETID TOTALITARIAN BASKET-CASE HERE]’)
To: Pokey78
when Samuel Doe was toppled as Liberia's leader, he was served a last meal of his own ears. Here's dinner Tookie?
3 posted on
07/18/2006 7:50:03 AM PDT by
ncountylee
(Dead terrorists smell like victory)
To: Pokey78
4 posted on
07/18/2006 7:50:44 AM PDT by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: Pokey78
I remember a mention in an article somewhere a few years ago about a nineteenth-century memoir by a transported british convict who escaped in the 1830's and spent twelve years with the Australian aboriginies. According to him the clans were incessantly warring, almost none of the men lived to middle age.
Quite the contrast to the popular image of recent decades.
5 posted on
07/18/2006 7:51:37 AM PDT by
sinanju
To: Pokey78
6 posted on
07/18/2006 7:54:37 AM PDT by
Skooz
(Chastity prays for me, piety sings...Modesty hides my thighs in her wings...)
To: Pokey78
"Most archaeologists," says LeBlanc, "ignored the fortifications around Mayan cities and viewed the Mayan elite as peaceful priests. But over the last 20 years Mayan records have been deciphered. Contrary to archaeologists' wishful thinking, they show the allegedly peaceful elite was heavily into war, conquest and the sanguinary sacrifice of beaten opponents."In the last 30 years archaelogists have decided that the cliff dwellings of the American Southwest, with their obvious defensive purpose, actually had nothing to do with warfare.
Apparently, after many centuries living in indefensible pueblos on the mesa tops, they just decided, for no particular reason, to move into the incredibly inconvenient but highly defensible cliff dwellings.
7 posted on
07/18/2006 7:55:14 AM PDT by
Restorer
To: Pokey78
Our modern history has been severely altered by the jihadist MSM including the AQTimes, from WWII to the present. Revisit almost any past issue with the knowledge that the AQTimes, along with CBS, Hollywood, etc. had a treasonous agenda, and the entire game unravels.
From Stalin to McCarthy to Nixon to Watergate to Reagan to Bush, the outright lies of the MSM have distorted our own understanding of the very world around us.
The head of the snake is the AQTimes.
8 posted on
07/18/2006 7:56:03 AM PDT by
Stallone
(Mainstream Media is dead. I helped kill it.)
To: Pokey78
9 posted on
07/18/2006 7:56:14 AM PDT by
Killborn
(Pres. Bush isn't Pres. Reagan. Then again, Pres. Regan isn't Pres. Washington. God bless them all.)
To: Pokey78
recommending Mark Ritchie's "Spirit of the Rainforest" (again) for further thoughts along this line.
To: Pokey78
Keeley wrote a book called "War Before Civilization," which I read some years back, which covers this subject (doubtless why Steyn quoted him). It's an eye-opening dissection of the "noble savage" myth. Can't wait to read Wade's "Before the Dawn."
To: Pokey78
In reality, Pocahontas's fellow Algonquin Indians were preyed on by the Iroquois...Some of my ancestors were the Huron, and the Iroquois did the same to them. Of course, our problem was that we allied ourselves with the French white men, who were not very good fighters even back in those days.
Of course, we were not as good of fighters as the Iroquois, so that may have had something to do with it.
13 posted on
07/18/2006 8:05:29 AM PDT by
sima_yi
To: Pokey78
There has been war since Cain killed Abel. There is NO peace in the heart of ANY man, white, black or otherwise. Just like there will be no peace in the Middle East till God decides otherwise.
16 posted on
07/18/2006 8:06:45 AM PDT by
cyborg
(then comes baby in the baby carriage)
To: Pokey78
17 posted on
07/18/2006 8:06:55 AM PDT by
ExpatGator
(Extending logic since 1961.)
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18 posted on
07/18/2006 8:07:49 AM PDT by
EternalHope
(Boycott everything French forever. Including their vassal nations.)
To: Pokey78
After Braddock's defeat in the French and Indian War, young Washington survived, but the camp-follower women did not. One pregant young lady was dismembered, she and her infant thrown in a pot, and they were eaten. Historian Alan Eckert points out that they ate her a bit underdone because they were in a hurry.
The Indian in "Last of the Mohicans" who eats the heart of the English commander is not a bad portrayal of a lot that went on. (The whites had their moments, too, such as the murder of Chief Logan's family, and the massacre of the Moravian {Christian} Indians.)
The point is that they weren't pure and peaceful savages.
I understand that these traditions were totally rejected by one noble warrior who came on the scene and was disgusted by this behavior....a guy named Tecumseh.
20 posted on
07/18/2006 8:14:02 AM PDT by
xzins
(Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Supporting the troops means praying for them to WIN!)
To: Pokey78
... but evidently decapitation isn't just for jihadists anymore: if you want to get ahead, get a head. Snicker...
23 posted on
07/18/2006 8:18:16 AM PDT by
Paradox
(Removing all Doubt since 1998!)
To: NCSteve
His killers kept his genitals for themselves, under the belief that if you eat a man's penis you acquire his powers. One swallow doesn't make a summer, of course,...O, NE ZOT! This is just too much, before lunch and everything!
25 posted on
07/18/2006 8:19:42 AM PDT by
Tax-chick
(Whiskey for my men, hyperbolic rodomontade for my horses.)
To: Pokey78
Take the Aztec/Mayan/Incan civilizations for example. They were some of the most bloodthirsty known in history. They killed for the sheer activity of it ... something to do besides make weird calendars and build pyramids. In fact, the pyramids were sacrificial altars where the blood of their victims ran in rivulets down the stone sides!
But we're supposed to believe that they were bucolic, pastoral people with an advanced civilization utterly destroyed by the evil Spaniards, who then tortured them into Catholicism even as they plundered their palaces.
History in the last 30 years has been the study of revisionist claptrap, not fact.
29 posted on
07/18/2006 8:21:26 AM PDT by
IronJack
To: Pokey78
The large number of copper and bronze axes found in Late Neolithic and Bronze Age burials were held to be not battle axes but a form of money." Liberals are such effing idiots.
30 posted on
07/18/2006 8:26:02 AM PDT by
dead
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For any Freeper's interested, there was a quite prescient volume written on this subject qquite some time ago: "A History of Warfare", By John Keegan.
I heartily recommend it to anyone interested in the methods and motivations of ancient warfare. Without the political correctness.
It has the added bonus of turning Clauswitz on his head.
Just a suggesstion.
Wombat101
31 posted on
07/18/2006 8:26:39 AM PDT by
Wombat101
(Islam: Turning everything it touches to Shi'ite since 632 AD...)
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