Genghis Khan, Law Giver, Free Trader And Diplomat, Is Back With A New Image

The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 7-11-2006 | Richard Spencer - Ulan Bator

[LeoWindhorse]

Genghis Khan ....where is he when we need him?

[freema]

I thought he was in Vietnam?

[The Lion Roars]

Mongolia is an important ally. They are a valuable partner in our contain China policy.

[ClaireSolt]

Tear down the cities to make the world one great pasture for the horses.

[tomzz]

If you had to pick the very last person who ever lived that you'd ever want to **** with......

[TWohlford]

Gosh... Maybe there's hope for Joe Stalin now?

[Enchante]

"Recent studies based on mass DNA testing have suggested that 16 million men living in Eurasia are descended from a single figure in the early 13th century, presumed to be Genghis."

..... and just think of the genetic imprint that Bill Clinton will have over the next 700+ years and beyond..... talk about the Spawn of Satan!!

[Tribune7]

[Dreagon]

Now there was a guy who knew how to deal with Iraqi insurgents.

Nothing like a few skull pyramids in front of deserted towns to convince the rest of the towns to divest themselves of insurgents.

[StJacques]

"Genghis Khan ....where is he when we need him?"

He definitely had a successful strategy for dealing with radical Islamic resistance in what is now present-day Afghanistan and western Pakistan, didn't he?

An excerpt on the revolt in Herat, Afghanistan following Genghis Khan's edict of religious toleration, which was universally opposed throughout modern-day Afghanistan and the western Indus River valley, all under Mongol control.

". . . But here as elsewhere, the Mongol tsunami brought disaster (1221 C.E.). Herat surrendered after a short siege, and the Mongols contented themselves with slaughtering the garrison while sparing the populace. A few months later, however, the city rose in revolt. The Mongols returned in force under the personal command of Ghengis Khan, and this time the entire population was put to the sword; contemporary accounts speak of more than a million and a half corpses. The network of irrigation canals was destroyed, the whole region devastated, and desolation reigned for decades along the Hari Rud. . . ."

There are times when I wonder if Genghis Khan was the only one who ever understood how to deal with Islamic fanatics.

[gotribe]

They didn't have metrosexuals back then.

[txzman]

Khan was brilliant in growing his domain - he gave almost full rights to conquered lands if they swore loyalty to him and his people. Those who reneged on the oath, or refused, he buried.

The trade, communication and protection he offered usually far outweighed being on the outside of the Mongol world, regardless of wether you were Chinese or Persian.

There were very intelligent reasons he conquered the known world at the time.

[wouldntbprudent]

paging John F Kerry!

[LeoWindhorse]

There are times when I wonder if Genghis Khan was the only one who ever understood how to deal with Islamic fanatics.

ditto

[Ax]

During my last diplomatic reception on 4 Jul 1997 at the U S Diplomatic Mission in Havana, I was standing near the bar, "working the crowd." An oriental gentleman came up next to me and introduced himself as the Ambassador from Mongolia. I'd never met anyone from that country before and was somewhat surprised to be speaking Spanish with a Mongolian. It was his third Spanish-speaking country so his Spanish was about as good as mine. We were having a very interesting conversation. He was explaining to me how difficult it was to get in and out of Ulan Bator. It's not much easier now than it was in Jengis Khan's day. Our conversation was interrupted when the Russian Ambassador broke in and took it over. Boorish and crude, the only way to describe His Excellency, dressed in a guayabera, drinking straight vodka and smoking a big Cohiba.

[PzLdr]

That would be his grandson, Hulegu, founder of the Il-Khanate of Persia, destroyer of the Abassid Caliphate, sacker of Baghdad, creator of the non-fertile crescent, destroyer of the Assassins.

[SunkenCiv]

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[blam]

Y-DNA Haplogroup of Genghis Khan:

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Y-DNA Haplotype of Genghis Khan: DYS393 DYS390 DYS19
DYS391 DYS425 DYS426 DYS434 DYS435 DYS436 DYS437i
13 25 15 10 12 11 11 11 12 8
DYS438 DYS439 DYS388 DYS389i DYS389ii DYS392
10 10 14 10 26 11

[SunkenCiv]

Too little, too late. ;’) ;’) ;’)

Found this while hunting through the millionfold helix of FR, and, uh, a search for my handle came up blank. :’D