To: robowombat
Vlad, the impaler, is considered to be a great patriotic hero by most Romanians, because he helped Transylvania become independent from the Ottoman Empire. The Turks invaded his kingdom, and he defeated them in battle. He took twenty thousand prisoners and impaled them all. In addition, he burned down farms and villages and poisoned wells, so the Turks would be denied supplies. When the Turks saw the impaled prisoners, they became frightened, and they retreated.
Do you suppose this might work in Iran or Syria?
8 posted on
08/05/2005 9:24:10 AM PDT by
dts32041
(Shinkichi: Massuer, did you see that? Zatôichi: I don't see much)
To: dts32041
Yes the Turks dubbed him 'Kiziklu Bey', 'The Impaler Prince'.
To: dts32041
Probably, but we are too "civilized" for that.
13 posted on
08/05/2005 9:30:54 AM PDT by
ZULU
(Fear the government which fears your guns. God, guts, and guns made America great.)
To: dts32041
"twenty thousand prisoners and impaled them all. "
I don't even want to thing about how bad that smelled or the flies and illness it caused to the survivors.
Must have been horrific and bothered the locals as well.
16 posted on
08/05/2005 9:47:17 AM PDT by
edcoil
(Reality doesn't say much - doesn't need too)
To: dts32041
"Do you suppose this might work in Iran or Syria?"
Yep! It would work with all of crazy Islamic Wahabbism. Vlad had the perfect solution to deal with these animals.
17 posted on
08/05/2005 9:53:45 AM PDT by
DarthVader
(Islam is not something to be understood, it is something that must be utterly destroyed)
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