Didn't know anything about the Hazaras until reading this piece: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/12/08/081208fa_fact_wood?currentPage=all They're an ethnic minority in Afghanistan that is semi-effective in policing against the Pashtuns and Taliban and other ilk of the goat and boy molesting variety. Still, they're not all that gee gaw wonderful. Reading it, however, made me think of what three or four good Gurkha regiments might do, given the same opportunity. Let 'em loose and sit back with a Sidecar to watch the fun.
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Good history lesson. It is truly a shame, although understandable, that such enthusiasm and direction is in short supply.
As T.E. Lawrence is supposed to have said " So long as the Arabs fight tribe against tribe, so long will they be a little people, a silly people - greedy, barbarous, and cruel..."
Only fags and sailors are named, Lawrence.
Come to think of it, he did spend some time in a Turkish prison...
"Turkish prison?" You need to be punished.
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