Smallpox blankets
This is war, folks, and war is hell. There are forces at work which intend to do us harm, here and abroad- and we seem to have trouble fighting on all fronts.
So here’s an answer- of sorts. The British “allowed” blankets contaminated wiht smallpox to fall into Indian hands. In other words, they cursed their enemies with the very thing that vexed the british themselves.
So why not fight the enemy with the things which vex us? We worried about China and India manufacturing? send them Osha and the EPA. Worried about Islam and it’s encroachment on our society? send them Richard Dawkins et al.
Your suggestions in comments.
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The next President should send Hillary over as a Middle East ambassador. If we had to endure her presence, why not put Ahmadinajad and the rest of the Muslims up to listening to her cackling shrill? We can hold her up to them as our Hydra head. They’ll do whatever we want, end the nuke refinement program, sure, as long as we take her back at the end of the day.
Like auto repairs, I don’t think I’d wish Hillary on anyone.
We could always send former President Clinton on a fact finding trip to Iran. Were he will, with out a doubt, be arrested by the morals police and most likely executed giving us a good excuse to kick their asses and getting rid of a major embrassement at the same time.
In my mind, the dark place that it is, that would be a toofer. If we could only get Hillary wrapped up in it and then we would have a threepeat.
Ah, the rhapsodies.
Have always been a bit skeptical of the smallpox blankets story. That’s because the alleged incident happened more than a century before the advent of the germ theory of disease.
Besides, when you take a “free” handout you should look very carefully at the motives of those doing the handing out.
I think this story has been disproved, but I’m not entirely sure. Not my period of history…
From my reading of history the small pox blankets where more of accident than design. People handling the blankets had a light case that was transmitted to the Indians that had no resistance to the disease.
IMHO.
Actually, germ theory wasn’t known, but all the way back to the Black Death, people understood contagion. Mongols would fling dead bodies of bubonic plague victims over the walls of castles, knowing they could just wait and they’d die. According to the Straight Dope, http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a5_066.html, this did in fact get discussed, though nobody can prove or disprove that it happened.
I thought there where documented cases of diseased cows flung over the walls of castles using trebucet’s. Not that I could recall the source for a bet.
paul: you’re thinking of the Holy Grail, I bet.
Og: I can’t be sure, but I’m guessing Paul’s trying to be funny. Which worked for me, go Paul!
Ah, Hillary = diseased cow. Got it now, Broad. Sorry, i been sick.
I dunno from funny, but glad I made a joke. Especially involving Hillary and diseased cows. I guess she was at a sale barn here in Ioway talking to the farmers present asking to have her mouth checked so she must agree.
Campaigning in Iowa Sunday, Clinton compared herself to cattle on sale: “I know that you’re going to inspect me — you can look inside my mouth if you want.” Clinton also has told voters, “I’ve been vetted. I’ve been tested. There are no surprises.”