Munitie-advies voor Afghanistan
Willem-Jan Markerink
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THE PIG AND PERSHING!
The story - some call it an urban legend - is told of the American General
John "Black Jack" Pershing who was in charge of a U.S. garrison in the
Philippines in 1911. Responding to numerous terror attacks by Muslims,
Pershing ordered the perpetrators caught, tried and, all except one of them,
executed by firing squad.
After making them dig their own graves, the soldiers tied them to the
execution posts, then slaughtered a number of pigs in front of them, rubbing
the bullets they would use to shoot the terrorists in swine blood and fat. As
the legend goes, this terrorized the terrorists, whose Islamic faith taught
them that if pigs contaminated their bodies they would go to hell instead of
as martyrs to paradise.
Their corpses were buried under the pigs' remains, and the one terrorist who
had not been killed was released to tell his fellow mujahedin what he had
seen. For the next 50 years, Islamic terrorism was unheard of in those
islands.
Was "Black Jack" Pershing the subject of a damning commission of inquiry? Was
he disciplined, dismissed?
No, the president apparently promoted him for crushing the terrorist threat.
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Bye,
Willem-Jan Markerink
The desire to understand
is sometimes far less intelligent than
the inability to understand
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