HappySqurriel said:
You don't (really) need much of an army, and the soldiers/equpment that is given as aid doesn't have to come directly from a government, in order to (greatly) increase the difficulty of a war against a country like Iran ... A 15 year old from Pakistan who is promised $10,000 (from Saudi Arabia) for his family if he dies and is armed with a $25 AK47 that is manufactured in China is still very deadly.
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That's not what you said though. That is sort of what is happening/has happened in Iraq, but that is completely different from the Vietnam war.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson