Today In Amman, Jordan

(SCENE:  Major Thomas ASHTON and Sergeant Major Iain MACTAGGART, members of the British 22nd SAS Regiment – Britain’s premiere Special Forces unit – are standing by a helicopter pad.  Both are suited up for a mission that nobody will confirm is a hostage rescue mission deep into ISIS territory; guns, ammunition, grenades, radios, and survival gear)

ASHTON: Should be a bit of a dustup, eh, MacTaggart?

MACTAGGART:  Aye.  Not the first bloody time, Major.

ASHTON: True.   All right, Sergeant-Major.  Let’s check the men’s kit.  This is going to be a nasty one.

(An orderly – Royal Air Force communications specialist Aircraftman Sheila O’RIORDAN – jogs up to ASHTON with a piece of paper.  She stands at attention and salutes the Major)

ASHTON (taking the paper):  Yes?

O’RIORDAN:  Flash message from Ministry of Defense, sir.

ASHTON:  Thank you.  Dismissed.

(O’RIORDAN salutes.  ASHTON returns the salute.  O’RIORDAN jogs back to the radio tent)

MACTAGGART:  So w`hat’s MOD say, Major?

ASHTON:  President Obama has declared a climate conference.  ISIS has surrendered.

MACTAGGART:  ISIS couldn’t face the onlaught of Powerpoint, eh?

ASHTON:  Sounds like the mission’s off.

MACTAGGART:  Peace has broken out?

ASHTON:  Yes, Sergeant-Major.

(Both men stand for a beat – and then erupt in laughter)

MACTAGGART:  I’ll tell the helos to spool up.

ASHTON:  Right.  Wheels up in ten.

(And SCENE)

8 thoughts on “Today In Amman, Jordan

  1. You… (pointing finger at you) you… you’re good. You… have a gift my friend. Oh, yes you do. No, no, no, you have a gift.

    Yes, you do.

  2. O’Bammy wants us to know the Syrians are just like the Pilgrims, but somehow I don’t think he means most will die during their first winter here.

  3. Obama’s big plans for 2016?
    Defeat the NRA.
    Bush’s patrician instincts often got the better of him, but at least, Bush was capable of learning.
    If ISIS detonated a nuke over NYC, Obama’s top priority would still be gun control.

  4. Nah, BG.

    His biggest worry would be how much that nuke would contribute to gloBULL warming.

  5. Victor Davis Hanson, in NR, speculating on what Obama may do in 2016:

    Close down Guantanamo, let thousands more refugees into the United States, free thousands more felons, snub another ally, flatter another enemy, weigh in on another interracial melodrama, extend amnesty to another million illegal aliens, make global warming laws by fiat, expand Obamacare, unilaterally impose gun control?

    http://www.nationalreview.com/article/427522/obamas-most-dangerous-year

    The liberals that comment here, the elite of the universities, the MSM ‘journalists’, and of course Obama’s celebrity admirers, would have no problem with any of this. Long gone are the days when they had integrity, when they had trust in the self-governance of the American People rather than the dictates of their ideologue-in-chief.

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