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[NavyChief]

Scott,

got it...

link to www.imao.us/.

Thanks, shipmate
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Working with Senator Kerry four years in the POW/MIA Office left me thinking -- when did the man ever do any work?

[Fabius Cunctator]

Bill Levinson:

I found that link on Prince Jarema Wisniowiecki EXTREMELY interesting. I studied Islam for two years about 32 years ago to satisfy theology electives at Georgetown Univ, and learned early on the real meaning of a Muslim truce, or hudna. Too bad few of our leaders understand the real meaning of this.....specifically the appeasers in our State Dept.

My conclusion, in this day and age, is that we use our experience in WWII, Pacific campaign, as a guide in fighting the terrorist. History, as you eloquently pointed out, teaches the right lessons, first and foremost, that the strong need not negotiate. Unfortunately, we have a lot of misguided people in our government who don't know these lessons, or consider them irrelevant in a more "enlightened" age (right!!!). In dealing with those bearing arms against us - the insurgent, the fanatic and suicidal, Prince W's treatment is appropriate. Those who surrender should be treated well, but firmly, and kept detained until the end of hostilities - for their sake as well as ours.

Thanks for pointing this out, and stimulating my interest in a little studied episode of Eastern European history.

Regards, and Semper Fi!

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Quintus Fabius Maximus Cunctator
USMCR – 1974 to the present.

"Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum; qui victoriam cupit, milites inbuat diligenter; qui secundos optat eventus, dimicet arte, non casu. Nemo provocare, nemo audet offendere quem intellegit superiorem esse, si pugnet." - F. Vegetii Renati Epitoma Rei Militaris, AD 390