Pigs and Islamist Terrorists lll

    In 1682 and again in 1683, French Admiral Abraham Duquesne visited Algiers with a new and terrible weapon, the mortar. The French consul in town, an old, saintly Vincentine priest by the name of Jean Le Vacher was not able to persuade the French admiral to stop the bombing. He only promised to returned the next year.  He returned the second time with the intention of destroying Algiers. His presence caused a shakeup in the government of the town, and the new dey or governor was the captain of the galleys, Mezzo Morto. He warned the French admiral that every Frenchman in town, beginning with the saintly Jean Le Vacher would be strapped across the muzzle of a huge cannon and the cannon fired if the French admiral did not leave. The admiral began using the terrifying mortars, and the dey began having Frenchman splayed across the huge cannon and splattered into the bay. About twenty innocent French were killed by the murderous Muslims using the mouth of the cannon. The gunner, a renegade from Holland, who actually fired the cruel cannon reportedly suffered from nightmares the rest of his life.
    This could be one of the unintended consequences of decapitating captured Muslim terrorists. The issue of whether someone could do such bloody executions without suffering PTSD would have to be addressed. Is this why the Muslim terrorists like beheading their prisoners- because to other Muslims it means that that person is not going to Paradise if he were a Muslim? If it is, the West may have a tool for the war on Muslim terrorism if we have the resolve to use it on them. It will only take a couple of suicide bombings in America, before we Americans will be strong enough to do it. Again we have a great responsibility to the Special Forces, whom I give the alternate title of the Wolverines, because of their great courage, ferocity, determination, endurance, and the love they have for their children. We do not want to cripple the Wolverines in their service to the country and their buddies whom they depend upon for their lives. All too often in the military being macho gets confused with being stupid. For example, I give you the" clank-clank, I'm a tank" mentality.That mentality was dead set against the autonomy and improvisation of the special operator. The tankers held to a rigid central command and control format which was way too slow and uninformed by today's fluid battlefield. Having Special Forces and other military groups performing beheadings needs study to be sure we're not asking our men and women to lose their minds doing it.
Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major, Class of '68, William and Mary
References:
1. The Pirates of Barbary (2010) by Adrian Tinniswood
2. The Wolverine Way (2010) by Douglas Chadwick
"The measure of a man
  Is not what he says,
  But what he does,
  And what he allows others
  To do in his presence."
   -Navy Seal Instructor