Poor Israel - even their own llamas were against them in the war

From Lenin’s Tomb http://www.leninology.blogspot.com (always excellent political coverage from a leftie POV)

Another, rather less important, point grabs my attention. Even the llamas that Israel drafted in to help out proved to be evildoers, simply sitting on their arses when ordered to proceed through Lebanese terrain with the supplies.

This is not the first time animals have proven uncooperative when used in combat. When Russian forces in World War II trained dogs strapped with bombs to run under enemy tanks, it somehow did not occur to them that the dogs would actually run under the Russian tanks they had been trained with and blow up the home team.

Similarly, when the Americans tried to strap bats with incendiary devices stuffed with napalm in the hope of setting them loose on Japanese towns at dawn whereupon they would nest in the eaves only to be detonated as the townspeople were waking up and reduce all those paper and wooden houses to ashes, they forgot to take note of the wind: during a training exercise when they tried to set them loose on a model town constructed in a New Mexico desert, the wind carried all the bats flying back to headquarters and burnt up a brand new air base.

Filthy animals.