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Originally posted by Puke:
maybe we should just imprision them, and make all their meals pork. they can either starve, or be heathens.
This is a good idea but does not quite go far enough. They could just refuse to eat the pork. There is a precedent for what you are suggesting, though.
They had a problem with Muslim 'mokers' (from which the English term 'amok' comes, I am told) when the Philippines were... 'acquired' from Spain. And there is a signifgant Muslim minority in the southern islands. Some of these guys would work themselves into a berserk frenzy and could not be stopped by the tactics that would work against your average fighter. The 'sledgehammer' .45 was introduced at this time as one way to cope with the frenzied 'mokers' since it hit them hard enough to actually knock them down. The way they finally convinced the Muslim extremists in the southern Philippines to stop resisting was to use their religious zeal against them. They would capture them alive (not easy but possible) and wrap them in the skin of a freshly killed
pig -- then hang them up in a public square somewhere to die of exposure, thirst, and starvation. Since any contact with
pigs was horribly polluting, and required all sorts of religious purification, it was a sure ticket to the Muslim hell to die in this state. As more and more 'mokers' were hung up in pigskins this idea of becoming a 'moker' became less and less appealing.
Maybe we should do something similar with Usama if we can get him alive. Wrap him in a pigskin and hang him up in a public square somewhere...