A counter-argument for the kumbaya crowd. Seven and a half-minutes in a NWFP gun market.
I wonder where the ladies are?
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We Are the World, and ThatBy lex, on January 15th, 2009
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“Ladies? We don’t need no steenking ladies.”
Check out the smile on the goat walking through!
“I wonder where the ladies are?” – Lex
Pilots, they’re all the same. Tsk.
That is soo cool.
I wish the big mall in Fort Worth had one of those. Travel to the NWFP is going to make the real purchase prices too high for most Texans.
The ladies are probably out flying biplanes built out of goat bladders and adobe.
I think I saw this on TV a month or so ago on PBS or something like that. This is definitely not mainstream media…he certainly puts the challenge we face there in perspective.
Women? At home cooking, cleaning and raising the kids as any wife should do, right? I know thats’ so 1950′s of me…
That market played a very large part in running Ivan from Afghanistan.
To bad we don’t have a market like that here.
Where are the ladies? Staying out of the line of fire, naturally. And since the line of fire is pretty much everywhere in that crazy film, they’re probably down in the basement with the kids, trying to sing ricocheting lullabies to the kids, and encouraging them to reshape those used bullets. I’d like to see how the radical left can reshape this story so the participants look like nice normal people. That’s going to take some huge spin.
Marianne
Having stood on the other side of the Khyber pass Pakistan-Afghanistan border (Within 8-inches) I can tell you the border is “porous” to say the least. Only the extreme poverty of the people prevent even further arms possession. Crazy! The weirdest part is that these hand-made weapons are actually of fair quality and will stand up to moderate use. Hand filed and machined! Crazy!
Danger/
Those guys have been hand-making weapons in that part of the world since guns were invented–long family traditions in most cases. Just think of the history; where you were standing, Lord Curzon could have stood over a hundred years ago–contemplating the same dilemmas in dealing with the great grand-parents of the same tribesmen.