To: Spktyr
Ever occur to you that maybe they didn’t want to surrender? And if anyone should get the punishment for cutting off the guy’s head it should be the guy who did it. There’s no need to bring in your entire army and slaughter innocent civilians.
43 posted on
02/02/2008 7:12:58 PM PST by
G8 Diplomat
(Creatures are divided into 6 kingdoms: Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Monera, Protista, & Saudi Arabia)
To: G8 Diplomat
It was the local Persian caliph that did it, with the specific endorsement of *his* Caliph.
What’s the only way to get to the leader of an empire?
44 posted on
02/02/2008 7:16:31 PM PST by
Spktyr
(Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
To: G8 Diplomat
By the way, it’s nothing that the Persians themselves didn’t do. See 2nd Naxos.
46 posted on
02/02/2008 7:18:48 PM PST by
Spktyr
(Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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