We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2010 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/12/overheard_at_a.html Sat, 24 Mar 2012 15:24:18 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2012 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification H/t Boquisucio for the pic. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/12/overheard_at_a.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/12/overheard_at_a.html Mon, 22 Dec 2008 07:39:18 -0600 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/12/overheard_at_a.html#comment-81947 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/12/overheard_at_a.html#comment-81947 Tue, 23 Dec 2008 13:03:53 -0600 ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/12/overheard_at_a.html#comment-81916 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/12/overheard_at_a.html#comment-81916 Mon, 22 Dec 2008 22:17:11 -0600 They just found 9 Mexican Soldiers without their heads and a note attached to them that said:

'For every one of ours that you kill, we will kill ten of yours'

Um.  I honestly don't mean to make light of the soldiers' deaths, but uh...was this a retaliation for killing 0.9 narcotraffickers?
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And I'm not going to pull this now, with a caveat I'll get to later.

In context, it's still funny, and isn't really mocking the Mexican Army in terms of fighting prowess or their successes and failures in their very real war on the narcotraficantes.  And certainly not in any more than I've mocked our own Army, which also happens to be at war, and in which I know people who have died.

Now, if you can tell me that one of the troops in that photo was among the casualties, I'll yank it in a minute.

Otherwise, I'd expect the "Crazy Frogs" as our resident spanish-speaker calls them, to cammie up, check their kit, and go break up some drug gangs.

Which will probably result in some more dead soldados.

It goes with the job.

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They just found 9 Mexican Soldiers without their heads and a note attached to them that said:

'For every one of ours that you kill, we will kill ten of yours'

Papa Ray
West Texas
USA
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This is what happens when Crazy Frogs get all Marcial.
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Jeez.

I'm having an "off" day.
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What do you call a squad of Mexican Infantry?

An Army of Juan.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/12/overheard_at_a.html#comment-81890 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/12/overheard_at_a.html#comment-81890 Mon, 22 Dec 2008 14:39:24 -0600
I'm surprised Boq didn't -- ahem -- jump all over that one...
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The green-visaged Mexican soldiers were.  Just in  case you were still not there yet.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/12/overheard_at_a.html#comment-81886 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/12/overheard_at_a.html#comment-81886 Mon, 22 Dec 2008 12:01:44 -0600
Who's worse, the guy responsible for the dumb joke, or the guy too dumb to get it?
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