Guns n' Irony

This is my Tar 21 Assault Rifle. There are many like it but this one is mine. And so on and so forth. Ive grown accustomed to using the Tavor Assault Rifle as my default weapon in Modern Warfare 2's online multiplayer so much so that all of my customized classes use the rifle with differing scopes, attachments, special grenades etc etc.

Of course thats not actually my Tar 21, mine is often times decked in urban, digital or forestry camo. Coming soon: blue and red tiger!. Also mine is contained squarely inside a video game and not, you know, in real life.

Now to the irony! before even getting the rifle I named my classes as follows: Jihadi, Hezbollah, Hamas, Sandinista, Partizan. Great names, all related to different militias and/or revolutionary and/or resistance groups either of the socialist or Arab nationalist persuasion. I'm not just doing for the names, you see, I actually know about these groups, I've studied them, I understand the implications of having them present. I'm not necessarily in favour of any of these groups but I am aware of them. It's not a tribute, its mostly an acknowledgement.

This isn't the ironic part, the irony is that the Tar 21 is an Israeli weapon, used prominently by the Israeli Defense Forces against, among other groups, Hezbollah and Hamas. Ha! Ok maybe its not ha ha funny but it is certainly noteworthy. Obviously there's no political statement being made here. In the eternal struggle between the Israelis and the Palestinians who is right? I don't know. I don't side with either of them really. Certainly nobody is right when blood is being shed for moral or religious reasons but thats neither the scope of this post or of this blog.

And that is that. I haven't written about MW in a while so I thought I'd bring the topic back. I'm getting better at it. Now instead of killing four baddies and being killed 22 times its more like a 12-12 ratio which won't get you an atomic bomb but its good enough for third or fourth place.