......"The leaflets would be far more effective if they relate the story of how Gen. John J. 'Blackjack' Pershing dealt with Islamist terror in the Philippines in 1911. Pershing detailed a patrol to bring in six known terrorists who had slain women and children in a backwoods village. The terrorists were required to dig their own graves, and then were lashed to stakes to await the firing squad. Several pigs were brought before them for slaughter...."'When you are buried,' the officer of the detail told the terrorists, 'we will bury the pig offal with you. You'll never see paradise.' And no virgins, either. One of the terrorists was allowed to 'escape' to return to his fellows to tell the awful story, as Pershing knew he would. There was no more trouble in the neighborhood for years, for long after Pershing was long gone to France to command American doughboys in the Great War. "This was the kind of punishment a society like ours would never countenance today, of course, even for Osama bin Laden's evildoers. But merely telling the story would tell the Taliban warriors, loud and clear, just how mean the infidels are prepared to be. [ Pruden on Politics via GOP N&V] "
Didn't happen. Made up urban internet legend. Wish it had, though.