The following article by Linda Qiu was posted on the New York Times website August 17, 2017:
Within hours of the rampage in Barcelona on Thursday, President Trumpurged those who seek to combat terrorism to “study what General Pershing of the United States did to terrorists when caught.”
“There was no more Radical Islamic Terror for 35 years!” he added in his Twitter post.
The White House did not respond to a request to clarify what should be studied. However, Mr. Trump has previously referred to a long-debunked fable about how Gen. John J. “Black Jack” Pershing crushed a rebellion in the predominantly Muslim Moro Province of the Philippines after the Spanish-American War. Continue reading “Study Pershing, Trump Said. But the Story Doesn’t Add Up.”