Trouble in Mosul

[Mr. Bigglesworth]

The article had me at "Dude, where's my Humvee?" but the quote:

It's a surreal state of affairs in which American weaponry is being sent into Iraq to destroy American weaponry previously sent into Iraq. If a new sequel to Catch-22 were to be written, this would be the plot line.

made me squeal.

Yeah, i was going to quote that. It was too depressing, i decided to let people read it without me bringing it up. 

Starting a war is like deciding to ride a crocodile. You better have a damn good plan for getting off.

[Centurion40]

Or treat all the weapons with an inert designer virus that causes extreme and painful elephantiasis after being activated by aerial spraying of a trigger agent. We can then spray where and when we want, just like crop dusting.

It's hard to cause much mischief when you have to carry your ball sack around in a wheelbarrow, trying to avoid every bump.

Brilliant!  >:D

[Airborne Rifles]

Tell your kids. Apparently selfies can kill, especially if you're ISIS. Post a friendly shot of yourself in front of your terrorist headquarters, and you may receive a few JDAMs within 24 hours:

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/s/moron-terrorist-takes-selfie-front-isis-headquarters-air-104558006.html

[Centurion40]

Tell your kids. Apparently selfies can kill, especially if you're ISIS. Post a friendly shot of yourself in front of your terrorist headquarters, and you may receive a few JDAMs within 24 hours:

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/s/moron-terrorist-takes-selfie-front-isis-headquarters-air-104558006.html

The pic in question, and a video of the aftermath, would have pushed that story over the top.

Must be a dream job for teen-aged intel Airmen so comb social media for a living.

[Mr. Bigglesworth]

Tell your kids. Apparently selfies can kill, especially if you're ISIS. Post a friendly shot of yourself in front of your terrorist headquarters, and you may receive a few JDAMs within 24 hours:

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/s/moron-terrorist-takes-selfie-front-isis-headquarters-air-104558006.html

That's beautiful. Its like Van Gogh work for DoD.

[Martok]

Tell your kids. Apparently selfies can kill, especially if you're ISIS. Post a friendly shot of yourself in front of your terrorist headquarters, and you may receive a few JDAMs within 24 hours:

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/s/moron-terrorist-takes-selfie-front-isis-headquarters-air-104558006.html

Ha!  That's both hilarious and awesome.  O0 



You gotta love the author's sense of humor too: 

In a very real story that we assure you did not originate from The Onion...

According to Air Force General Hawk Carlisle (which is a perfect name for an Air Force General we must say)

;D

[OJsDad]

According to the President

"We don't yet have a complete strategy."

.  Is, however, the Pentagons fault for not giving him a plan yet. All of this is in relation to training and equipping the Iraqi military, not with the US strategy to combat ISIS. 

[bayonetbrant]

You can train and equip ask you want, but unless you can transplant some cajones and a "give a shit" attitude into the Iraqis, it won't matter.

[Staggerwing]

Meanwhile Erdogan and his homies got spanked in the Turkish elections while the pro-Kurdish party won enough votes to have a say in things for the first time in like, forever. I wonder how them apples will affect things in the region.

[Gusington]

Um...'not well' for $100.00, please. Because nothing good happens in the Mideast. You can drop cotton candy and teddy bears over Mosul and they'll become weaponized.

[JasonPratt]

THEY ARE PAGAN ARTIFACTS FROM THE DECADENT WEST AND INSULT OUR HONOR WARRRGARRRBLE!!

[LongBlade]

Um...'not well' for $100.00, please. Because nothing good happens in the Mideast. You can drop cotton candy and teddy bears over Mosul and they'll become weaponized.

Ah, yes. The infamous Mark 27 "Fairy Floss." Everyone worries about the pink ones, but it's that rarely seen green one that is the worst.

[Gusington]

Fairy floss is different.

[LongBlade]

Fairy floss is different.

IIRC "fairy floss" is Bri'ish for "cotton candy" or Bob's your moustachioed uncle.

[Gusington]

I thought fairy floss was Star's undies.