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Someone needs to spend a little more time at the rangeFirst we had the TNR’s breathless publication of STB’s “square backed Glock” rounds. Now we’ve got Agence France Presse sponsoring transparent fantabulisms (and yeah, I made that word up – it seems to fit).
According to Blackfive and The Autonomist, the original caption for the photo read (the link has, mysteriously, gone dead):
Well, maybe. If rather than running out of bullets someone ran out of rifles and decided to throw their ammunition that could‘ve happened. But it’s pretty darned unlikely. Because, as anyone whose actually handled a weapon before (rather than merely editorialize about how inherently evil they are) would realize, those are unspent rounds. The bullets being the little tippy things atop the casing containing the powder and primer. Uncle Jimbo has more over at Blackfive’s – the tattooed lady apparently is some Mesopotamian Green Helmet, while AFP’s al-Okaili stringer has a rather narrow focus. It’s reassuring to see that those Tribunes of the People over at the NYT would never stoop to such low propagandizing, preferring instead to cover themselves in juvenalia by spamming the Wikipedia pages of those whose views they find “uncongenial.” I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by I think those guys ended up working in journalism. 17 comments to Someone needs to spend a little more time at the range |
 
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Fantabulisms?
Oooh, good word, Lex!
The picture cracked me up — just think of all the damage those two bullets could have caused. Perhaps poked an eye out or something?
Sheesh. How dumb do they think we are?
Probably lots of folks will believe “US troops are firing indiscriminately into buildings.” Any lie told often enough gets some traction…hopefully the facts get some traction too and not just with friendly partisans.
It’s all about appearances. Seeing those deadly bullets in the hands of that loving mother… Oh!, the eeeevil imperialist, militarist American psychopathic hordes inflicted on the poor Iraqi people by the eeeevil Rove & Bush!. It occurred to me that the current camouflage military uniforms, dating from WWI, has to take into account the new reality of appearance as being the thing that really matters.
I recommend that all male soldiers wear uniforms of chino trousers, collared shirts without neckties and corduroy jackets with suede elbow patches – make ‘em look like kindly college professors. Female soldiers should look like housewives, school teachers or nurses. Soldiers should greet one another with raised V – fingers and a hearty (and loving!) “Peace!”
Whatever loss in military functionality will be more than compensated by the good will engendered in the media and the positive press that will undoubtedly follow. Appearances trump enemy body count, Iraq civilian casualties or the MSM beloved US military daily death count.
It’s all appearances. Camo as we know it it as dead as the scarlet tunics and blue trousers that were superceded by Feld Grau.
Since Lebanon and Israel haven’t started to duke it out yet this summer, the feautography buffs have moved east to Iraq.
Isn’t that the same teary burka clad grandma from last summer’s Lebanon feautography fest? Maybe she’s a stringer…
AAAAARGHHHH, MAN HANDS!!
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The gun nerds over at The High Road are already all over this. I left a coupla comments there, m’self, mentioning the perfect *shinyness* of the cartridges. And the disembodied hand, too.
Dang, all the cartridges I have were bought so long ago that they seem to have acquired a rather dull demeanor sitting in those boxes.
I must get out more, and shoot more, and get fresh ammo to replace the old, which fresh ammo will be shiny and stimulating to gaze upon though horrifically godawfully f-ing costly these days
P.s. Late one night, with nothing better to do, I did try to improve the mood of some .45ACP ball cartridges (Winchester White Box) by drawing smily faces on the front of their bullets with a Sharpie. It later dawned on me that some people might not understand, and that if I had to launch those boys in earnest, I could be made to look like an evil bad person in court.
I _think_ I’ve gotten rid of all of those.
I still think it was funny, though, or at least silly.