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Old 08-03-2010, 11:48 PM
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Originally Posted by jester View Post
Another thing is, "torture" was used frequently on the American Frontier, just for the purpose of inflicting pain and not to gain intelligence or other information. Which would lead to retaliation or in modern wording, "PAYBACK!" So, it often does begin a pendulum of escalation.
I didn't know that one but similar things were done by the French, Belgian, British..., in their colonies. Nothing really surprising.
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