Dear Editor,
When our government tries to talk to the terrorists in the Middle East, they assume that they have the same set of core values as the United States. They totally fail because the muslim’s point of reference is totally different.
For more than two thousand years, the tribes that have since become muslims fought with each other over control of the land and the people. They fought rather than talked. The fight between the shiites, shias, and wahabbis started the day that Mohammed died and is still going on today, and they each are fighting the others physically and refuse to even discuss their various points of view. The muslims view diplomatic talk as a sign of weakness--that the weaker person wants to talk when he is looking down the barrel of the gun held by his opponent. The only power they will accept is the power of intimidation by force.
In 1911, General John J. “Blackjack” Pershing was appointed as the governor of the Philippines. When he arrived on the scene, one of the prisons held 50 muslim terrorists that had been captured, tried, and convicted to be shot. He understood the muslim’s belief that to even touch a pig would prevent their entry into heaven.
So Pershing had 50 posts placed in the central compound of the prison. They made the terrorists dig their own graves, then they were tied to the posts. The guards brought in two hogs and slit their throats. The guards dipped their bullets into the blood of the hogs, and then executed 49 of the prisoners. They threw the bodies into the graves and threw in the guts of the hogs on top of them, then buried them. They let the last man go, so he could go back into the jungle and tell his cohorts how the muslims had been executed.
For nearly fifty years, there was not a single occurence of muslim terrorists attacking the people of the Philippines.
In 1986, when Ronald Reagan was president, Libya killed Americans. Reagan ordered our military to bomb Gadhafi’s palace. They bombed the east end of the palace and killed one of Gadhafi’s 34 sons. Gadhafi was in the west end of the palace and was not harmed.
Libya was quiet for almost 25 years.
Then Obama apologized.
Jim Vance