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http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2013/02/diy-weapons-of-the-syrian-rebels/100461/ProgressiveProfessor
(22,144 posts)cliffordu
(30,994 posts)ProgressiveProfessor
(22,144 posts)Qassams are not that hard to make, as your post clearly showed.
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)Slingshots and improvised weapons. If you have a lathe you can make a lot of nasty things.
Sad that war has to be the mother of so much invention.
Warpy
(111,267 posts)because the same pigs who made life so miserably for working people before the fighting started simply change uniforms and go back to business as usual.
cliffordu
(30,994 posts)Warpy
(111,267 posts)and the government is so irretrievably corrupt it coddles the guilty and oppresses everybody else.
It sounds sadly familiar. I just hope I'm dead and gone by the time it happens.
cliffordu
(30,994 posts)Too many ipads and HDTV.
And OXY.
And sports teams
Warpy
(111,267 posts)and the HDTV is on broadcast, only, meaning nobody much sees the sports teams play but the fat cats and ordinary slobs have to read about it the next day in the newspaper, things will definitely start to happen.
That's probably a long way off. Working folks are still able to pay the bills and live fairly decently. When their health insurance goes bye-bye, that will stop. And it will.
Selatius
(20,441 posts)Improvised mortars and slingshots to toss sticks of dynamite are rather underpowered against, say, a conventional T-72 tank.
One thing they do earn credit for is tenacity. They are a dedicated bunch of rebels.