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The Rise of the Monkey TerroristAsymmetrical Monkey Warfare to Challenge America’s Dominance of Central Asia.
According to reports, the US military is growing increasingly concerned that in addition to Pashtuns training in Waziristan another enemy is emerging, a smaller, fuzzier enemy. The monkey terrorist.
This is literally what officials are calling them. Small central Asian monkeys being allegedly trained to wield AK-47s with deadly precision, the first deadly harbingers of an Islamofascist Monkey Army poised to invade Afghanistan and do battle with the 100,000 US troops there.
It seems difficult to imagine, given the comparatively small size of most of the monkeys of the region, how they will manage to wield the nearly meter-long AK-47 effectively. Less clear still is how many monkeys there are, and if they are being trained to march in lockstep as parts on powerful monkey battalions. They do however seem well suited to provoking fear for the already failing war effort, and provide another excuse when the war is inevitably lost.
The Taliban didn’t beat us, the monkeys did. http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2010/07/10/ ... terrorist/
This reminds me of a
The Flying Monkey Story.
A monkey was rescued by Australian RAAF pilots in Vietnam. An Australian RAAF Officer paid in order to save the primate from a horrible death. American soldiers were going to feed the primate to a Boa restrictor, for the amusement of the bored soldiers, until the Aussies intervened.
The primate became the RAAF's mascot, until one fine day, the monkey wreaked havoc in the officer's mess. So then the Aussies decided to teach the primate how to fly. They climbed the Control Tower, with the unsuspecting monkey in hand, placed a cluster chute on its back, and threw the budding Airborne Paratrooper over. The chute did not open in time.
But, the monkey survived, and was trying to run from his Aussie Trainers, but was quickly recaptured. The Aussie RAAF Officers then decided that they needed to deploy a Chopper to complete the primate's basic training.
So, the primate was put into an Iroquois Helicopter. They climbed to 6000FT and out went the primate. The chute deployed, to the relief of all Aussies. Unfortunately, the terrified primate climbed the cords, and dragged in his chute and the RAAF Primate plunged to the ground.
The ANZAC primate failed his training, and gave his life serving the RAAF!
LEST WE FORGET!!!!!! 
If you boys behave yourselves, I will tell you the story about the unlikely alliance (friendship) between a Vietnam US Army Cobra Pilot, 2 Aussie SAS Vietnam vets, a RAAF Iroquois pilot, and a CNG reservist of the 74 campaign and their bonding and battle against PTSS through the RSL.
The RAAF Iroquois Pilot is the very same that saved the Monkey's life, then tried to train him as an Airborne Paratrooper! A book is being written about these tales as we speak and should be published by the end of the year!
Many of you will find it valuable, as you require to confront the same mental issues.....
