2009-11-04

Before Bin Laden There Was Pancho Villa

With all the talk surrounding the inability of the Americans to find Osama bin Laden, it's tempting to think this is the only example of such an episode in its history.

It isn't.

In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson sent an expedition into Mexico led by the distinguished General John "Black Jack" Pershing to capture one-time ally Pancho Villa. Villa lured the Americans deep into a Mexican terrain he knew intimately and it resulted in the Americans failing to capture him.

Whether he's dead or alive, as Villa showed, it's hard for a foreign entity or organism to find someone in a geographical territory they know very well.  

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