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This American found the solution to the problem with our soldiers being sitting ducks for the Iraqi sniper terrorists. Couldn't something similar be done?

General "Black Jack" Pershing was born September 13th, 1860 near Laclede, MS. He died July 15th, 1948 in Washington, D.C.

Highlights of his life include:

*1891 Professor of Military Science and Tactics University of Nebraska.
*1898 Serves in the Spanish-American War.
*1901 Awarded rank of Captain.
*1906 Promoted to rank of Brigadier General.
*1909 Military Governor of Moro Province, Philippines.
*1916 Made Major General.
*1919 Promoted to General of the Armies.
*1920 Comes to many defense industries to thank them for their help in WWI.
*1921 Appointed Chief of Staff.
*1924 Retires from active duty. Educated at West Point.

THE KEY:

Just before World War I, there were a number of terrorist attacks on the United States forces in the Philippines by Muslim extremists. So General Pershing captured 50 terrorists and had them tied to posts for execution.

He then had his men bring in two pigs and slaughter them in front of the, now horrified, terrorists. Muslims detest pork because they believe pigs are filthy animals. Some of them simply refuse to eat it, while others won't even touch pigs at all, nor any of their by-products. To them, eating or touching a pig, its meat, its blood, etc., is to be instantly barred from paradise (and those virgins) and doomed to hell.

The soldiers then soaked their bullets in the pig's blood, and proceeded to execute 49 of the terrorists by firing squad. The soldiers then dug a big hole, dumped in the terrorist's bodies and covered them in pig blood, entrails, etc.

They let the 50th man go. And for the next forty-two years, there was not a single Muslim extremist attack anywhere in the world.

Maybe it is time for this segment of history to repeat itself, perhaps in Iraq? The question is where do we find another Black Jack Pershing?

>>>Maybe it is time for this segment of history to repeat itself, perhaps in Iraq? The question is where do we find another Black Jack Pershing?

I don't think that would play well on the evening news. World wide political correctness is to entrenched in the minds of the masses.

Our men and women are sitting ducks over there in Iraq and I don't like them getting picked off one by one. Let the troops use tear gas, rubber bullets and riot tactics immediately to control the unruly mob. Let our troops protect themselves better.

I highly doubt Pershing did this. I think this is an urban myth. The same story has been told about the Russians in Afghanistan. And the Moro wars in the Phillipines lasted on and off for over a decade from 1904 to about 1912. And it can hardly be called a war at all as we loss less than 100 men in all that time. It would be called a low intensity conflict nowadays. The Moro "wars" should not be confused with the much fiercer Phillipines war fought between 1899 and 1903 which cost 4500 American lives. This was more than double the amount we lost fighting the Spanish.