My grandfather's commanding officer Gen. John "Blackjack" Pershing, put down a Muslim rebellion in the Philippines in the first decade of the 20th century by refusing to return rebels' bodies to the families for burial. Instead, he cut their heads off and buried them in pig excrement. No paradise for them! The rebellion collapsed in short order. |
"The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light." --Jesus
"Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious" --George Orwell
"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function." --F. Scott Fitzgerald