according to the people's daily online, the taliban is training monkeys to kill, giving them AK-47s, and setting them loose in waziristan. i'm no expert on monkey military strategy but that doesn't seem like an a very good plan. how good is their training? are they getting full monkey army training or some half-assed slapped together monkey combat course?
and won't this just start a new arms race in south and central asia? how will the u.s. close the monkey gap? we don't have monkeys. at least not indigenous ones, and they're the best soldier stock! would you want your security in the hands of some zoo-raised monkey, who never had to learn to scrounge for food? or worse, one of those lab monkeys? how soundly would you sleep if the only thing standing between you and the forces of darkness was a monkey with antibiotic resistant bronchitis?
