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To: HombreSecreto

>>To defeat an insurgency, you can follow the Roman recipe.

You must follow it.


7 posted on 08/23/2017 7:25:51 AM PDT by Bryanw92 (If we had some ham, we could have ham and eggs, if we had some eggs.)
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To: Bryanw92

The Roman recipe included decimation, which does not mean to destroy, but to kill every tenth one.

Line up all the inhabitants of a hostile village, then decimate. Word soon gets around.


49 posted on 08/23/2017 8:01:59 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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