re: #172 shiplord kirel

This talk of Pakistan’s large and well-equipped army reminds me of a video clip I saw during the days before the overthrow of the Shah of Iran. Keep in mind that the Shah also had a large and well-equipped military, better than Pakistan’s in many respects in fact.
A CBS crew spotted a group of Iranian soldiers confronting a mob of Khomeini rioters on the streets of Tehran. The latter were throwing rocks and bottles. One soldier ran forward and struck a mullah in the face with a rifle butt. At that point, another soldier shot him in the back and he and the rest of the squad joined the rioters, much to the CBS guy’s delight and approval.

Not to mention the well-provisioned and unmanned guardshacks that provided free top-grade weaponry to the “revolutionaries” when the shit really hit the fan. I worked with a guy that almost didn’t make it out; a rioter was furiously jamming a 9mm magazine into a 7.62mm rifle.