The Peshmerga has their version of Rangers/paratroops, too. Maybe the Iraqis hate the Americans for getting Saddam off their backs, but the Kurds sure don't feel that way about us. And they're one damn seriously hardcore bunch of troops; the only thing scarier than a bunch of them in uniform is a bunch of them not in uniform. They just flat LOOK like something between a particularly mean biker gang and a bunch of pirates.
Hmmmmm. Janissaries?
These are my type of people--God bless the Kurds. I feel terrible for them that they have had to put up with the arab a-holes for so long.