they have a few well trained and well equipped combat units
That's good news, I suppose. Considering how the Saudis repress the Shia in the kingdom (I think they actually hold a quiet record for destruction of Shia mosques in the region), I suppose even the more religiously-bent would still object to Hezbollah. I was very unimpressed by the little I've seen of their military, but admittedly they weren't about to show off to a female journalist, and the guy I spoke to made it absolutely clear what he thought of infidel women in the professions. The Gulf military are extremely dismissive of the Saudi, but OTOH everyone hates the Saudis in the Gulf, so I suppose you can't much trust them on that. What sort of clinched my opinion were the hilarious accounts by a French coach of trying to train the Saudis to play football, as a good insight to state of mind as regards effort & discipline. Mind you, it was a few years back, and their team did make it to the World Cup, so...
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Date: 2006-07-24 12:45 pm (UTC)That's good news, I suppose. Considering how the Saudis repress the Shia in the kingdom (I think they actually hold a quiet record for destruction of Shia mosques in the region), I suppose even the more religiously-bent would still object to Hezbollah. I was very unimpressed by the little I've seen of their military, but admittedly they weren't about to show off to a female journalist, and the guy I spoke to made it absolutely clear what he thought of infidel women in the professions. The Gulf military are extremely dismissive of the Saudi, but OTOH everyone hates the Saudis in the Gulf, so I suppose you can't much trust them on that. What sort of clinched my opinion were the hilarious accounts by a French coach of trying to train the Saudis to play football, as a good insight to state of mind as regards effort & discipline. Mind you, it was a few years back, and their team did make it to the World Cup, so...