You should know that the FSA are not a strange army that just came to Syria.
They are a strange army – a horde of pale, flabby men in patent leather shoes, political wonks, pink-eyed traders, investment bankers, IT nerds and City AM hacks.
But director Alex Proyas clearly sets great store by the visual impact of thousands upon thousands of robots in rank and file all looking disturbingly alike, and Sonny at one stage hides among this strange blank army like a mischievous kid in a cornfield - we see him peeking out from one of the lines.
If it's strange for an army of 18-year-olds to return to their kindergarten classrooms — "Wait, I remember it as being so much bigger!" many typically exclaim — it's even stranger for their teachers who remember them as pint-size pupils, not Princeton-bound giants.
It might seem strange that the army should need to restate its allegiance at this time, but there are a couple of reasons why the party might feel it to be necessary.
For over a year, Strange helps the army: he creates roads, moves towns, and makes dead men speak.
In a functioning democracy, this announcement would be deemed very strange because the army chief is not supposed to publicly speak about his job.
The Home Guard was one of the strangest and least military armies ever formed – an improvised band of volunteers set up early in the second world war, which had grown, by 1942, into a conscripted, disciplined and well-equipped force of nearly 2 million men.
Secondly, some people may find it very strange to subsidize a national army with their loose change.
There are strange things done in the army by the men overseas, some of the tales so grim they would make one's blood run icy.
"It sounds strange to talk about an entire army of soldiers on crack cocaine, but that's what we saw".
