Should we use Islamic fundamentalism against the insurgents?

Question

Should we dip bullet tips in pig blood and grease? Should we put pork in the mouths of dead insurgents? To me it seems like we are letting the little nats bother use and instead of just putting on some bug spray we just sit there and take.

[edit] Governorship of Tasker H. Bliss (1906-1909)
On February 1, 1906, Mjr. Gen. Tasker H. Bliss replaced General Wood as the commander of the Department of Mindanao-Jolo, and replaced him as governor of Moro Province sometime after the First Battle of Bud Dajo. Bliss' tenure is regarded as a "peace era," and Bliss launched no punitive expeditions during his term in office. However, this superficial peace came at the price of tolerating a certain amount of lawlessness. Constabulary forces in pursuit of Moro fugitives often found themselves forced to abadon their chase after the fugitives took refuge at their home cottas. The constabulary forces were outnumbered, and a much larger (and disruptive) expedition would have been required to dislodge the fugitives from their hidding place. However, this period also demonstrated the success of new aggressive American tactics. According to Rear Admiral D.P. Mannix who fought the Moro's as a young lieutenant from 1907-1908, the Americans resor

resorted to the extreme measure of wrapping dead Moro's in pig's skin and "stuffing his mouth with pork" thereby creating a religious "defilement." By inference this eventually deterred the Moro's from continuing with their suicide attacking tactics [The Old Navy by Daniel P. Mannix IV, 1983, MacMillan Publishing Company -- a compilation of the diary of Rear Admiral D.P. Mannix III].

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moro_Rebellion

It has worked in the past

Answer 1

I don't think the 'little' efforts would be any use because of the basic tenets of Islam. Their fighters are already fanatics!However they do believe in a cataclismic final battle full of fire and brimstone. I'd send them a little preview of that in Iran and then you would see all of them be like silent lambs for decades, if not forever.
It isn't that I am a crazy warmonger either. I truly wish we could live peacefully with them. They chose to bring the war to the West beginning when the Moors invaded Spain centuries ago. But the Islamic dogma in which they are immersed always forces them to engage in war with any non believer (in their dogma) and they use tactics that are barbaric in order to be 'good' people in their society. Killing any non beleiver, man woman or child is fine becuase these are not human anyhow according to them. Why should we face centuries of fighting these midieval people and sacrificing thousands of our young men (and, perhaps, bankrupting Western governments) while killing millions of them, innocents and combatants alike, when one or two tactical nukes in the right places would shut them up for decades or centuries? They will use such weapons against us the minute they have the practical capabiblity (and never even consider the innocent Islamic victims that they will kill in such an action much less our public). In the name of Islamic conquest of the world (the whole world, everyone) all is justified. Don't condemn my 'solution' until you understand ther intentions. I cannot convince you of those. Read their holy works, The Q'ran, The Hadith, their fatwahs, histories of the East and Middle East, etc and decide for yourselves what the most humane solution is.

Answer 2

Unless you are willing to pump about 700,000 troops into Iraq, or start using some truly inhuman tactics that will hurt us in the long run, then all this talk of "taking the gloves off" is crap. You have to win over the fence sitters, and you don't do that by pissing everybody off.

Answer 3

So all this is going to make then less willing to fight or make then more willing to give up information. Treating captives well insures that you get more captives. Killing or mistreating prisoners insures that their comrades fight to the death. Not a good thing. I always wanted anyone on the other side to be just on the verge of giving up. I sure the hell did not want them motivated to try harder.

Answer 4

Of course your "brilliant" plan could backfire and drive thousands of peaceful Muslims from around the world to become anti-American!!!

Answer 5

Crop dusters filled with pig's blood would do a heck of a job.

Seriously though, just think of how quickly the savages would stop using IE D's on our troop's if their Bradley's, tank's and humm-v's had balloons filled with pig's parts attached, and if they do persist, then crop dust their mosques.

P.S nightstalker below, BRAVO, BRAVO

Answer 6

They already hate us enough. It'd just be throwing gas on the fire. In fact, from what I understand, leadership downrange has forbidden those under their command from doing anything even remotely like what you mentioned.

Answer 7

Ever hear of the Sepoy Rebellion ? No. Not a good idea.

Answer 8

I like where your head is at, brother. We should have our Iraqi governmental proxies behead captured Islamic Fundamentalists, too. Let's put the fear of Allah in these boy-loving wackos!

Answer 9

That would just play into their hands.