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2007-04-02 Africa Horn

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Posted by Fred 2007-04-02 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Not so long ago in history, it was common practice when one conquered a city, to kill all males of military age and replace them with settlers from loyal areas. You didn't have to worry about uprisings for at least a generation or two after that.

Posted by crosspatch 2007-04-02 02:22|| 2007-04-02 02:22|| Front Page Top

#2 and replace them with settlers from loyal areas

... who then married the leftover local women or took them as concubines and slaves. Or else (Roman tradition) trucked the women and children across the empire to sell them as slaves far from home. The former sounds like the method Mohammed used, the latter by modern day Sudanese Arabs.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-04-02 15:25|| 2007-04-02 15:25|| Front Page Top

#3 You might want to read this article over at Hot Air. What I feel is happening is that the Jihadis are taking the rules of war back a thousand years. And we can't counter them using modern rules. In other words, they don't play by the Geneva Convention rules and to tell you the truth, we could execute insurgents in civilian clothes and be within the Geneva Conventions. We are trying to be nice, and they are using against us. They will melt into the backgroud and pretend to be civilians knowing we won't hurt them. Then they will attack again as soon as our gaze has shifted. It was this kind of fighting by un-uniformed individuals in more of a mob than an army that lead to tactics such as simply killing all military aged males. The jihadis tale that even farther ... they just kill everyone they can. According to the conventions, that behavior is illegal and people using those tactics do not enjoy the protections afforded by the conventions. It might be time to stop giving it to them.

We have painted ourselves culturally into a corner where the only choice we have are "civilized" rules. It is like the British fighting the Americans in our Revolution. We didn't fight by "the rules" and we slaughtered them. Now someone is doing it to us.

Posted by crosspatch 2007-04-02 20:58|| 2007-04-02 20:58|| Front Page Top

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