not whistlin' dixie
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Those Arabs have been brought up to speed, and maybe you want to blame Iran, but maybe you should also consider how much training we spent decades giving them in Iraq and in Afghanistan, and in neither place were they all homeboys. I think in general the Middle East has decided — all the tribes and all the mullahs and imams and all the warlords, everyone — to upgrade on both weapons and special-operations-style fighting. I'm for it. We have to stop thinking they're stupid and backward.
pipe up any time....