Standardisation and Hearts & Minds

""Such acts will create a gap between us and the Americans. We are trying to restore security in the area while the Americans are killing us," Nabil Saleh, 37, said as he stood with his AK-47 slung over his shoulder at his post in Abu Lukah."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071007/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_knowing_the_enemy

It's not good that he's packing an AK. We want to see them packing NATO weapons.

Of course, it could be argued that NATO has yet to develop anything as functional as an AK...