M16

In America, there are a lot of guns. There are way too many guns, but this isn't another tirade against the NRA. This is about Israel. Since almost everybody in this country who is my age is in the army, almost every who is in my age, is in control of an automatic weapon. It's quite often a bit to close for comfort. Either a soldier will have a Uzi, a galeel, a negev, or, most commonly an M16. Apparently, "Hey, can I see your gun?" is a great pickup line.

But the M16 is an incredible machine. Not only because with the push of a button, you can kill 29 people. Or even that it was made to be multifunctional, as a machete, an oar, and a lightweight submachine gun in one, but that despite how intricate the machine is, everybody knows how to clean it, care for it, and knows the pieces for it.

Including me. Friends are in the army, and I've looked at theirs, plus, I spent that week in the army program. We cleaned out the guns, we learned the names of all the parts, their functions, their size, etc. We played this game with the gun, where we take the gun (unloaded) to the lying position, put an Israeli coin around the sizeof a nickel on the alan, (that's the part where the fire explodes at the end of the barrel) and pull the trigger without letting the coin fall off. We learned just about everything about these guns.

There's just one thing I don't get.

In the kaf of the gun (the butt) there is a little door that reveals a hollow compartment. This was put in so that the gun would be buoyant, and could used be used as a paddle in Vietnam. (Cause the army didn't want to spend money on ours? -- but that's not the problem.) But a big problem arose with this thing. The story varies a little depending on who you hear it from, but it has the same gist. Either Vietnam, or the 1982 war in Lebanon saw the losing soldiers return, smuggling drugs in the hollow part of the gun.

I personally think that's rather creative, but the arm therefore said you can not open up that compartment. The rest of the gun has to be constantly cleaned, but you can be court-martialed for opening up the door on the back of the gun.

Again, that's not that big a deal, stupid military rules are hardly man bites dog material; not even dog bites man, it's more like dog bites dog biscuit. Let me just give you some assorted facts, and let's see if you don't come to the same conclusion that I do.

1) There is a compartment in the back of an M16 that is not allowed to be opened.
2) The Palestinians are demanding that we arm their police force.
3) The Israeli Mossad was able to booby trap a cell phone with enough dynamite to blow The Inspector to pieces, but not add enough weight to the phone so that he would notice.

Am I the only one who sees the Trojan Horse opportunity? We give them the guns, but when one of them turns on us with the weapons we supplied them, (which has already happened too many times) we push a button, and bye-bye terrorist.

This might actually give the Mossad some of their credibility back.

Get me outa here!!!

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Michael Kadish

"If English was good enough for Jesus Christ, it's good enough for me." -- Congressional response to Dr. David Edwards head of the Joint National Committee on Language on the attempts to make America more multilingual.

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