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St. Patrick's Missile?

Iran named its new, 2,000-kilometer range ballistic missile after a Shi’ite holy day. Stephen Trimble wants more weapons with religious holiday sobriquets. "So I’ve even come up with my own ideas for renaming some US weapons." 1. Rename JASSM the "St. Patrick’s Missile": commemorating JASSM’s former habit of veering wildly off course, like some drunken […]

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Iran named its new, 2,000-kilometer range ballistic missile after a Shi'ite holy day. Stephen Trimble wants more weapons with religious holiday sobriquets. "So I've even come up with my own ideas for renaming some US weapons."

1. Rename JASSM the "St. Patrick's Missile": commemorating JASSM's former habit of veering wildly off course, like some drunken crowd spilling out of a New York pub on March 17.

2. Change cluster bombs to Christmas bombs -- like the gifts in Santa's bag? (Okay, maybe that one's a stretch)

3. Rename Israel's Arrow missile interceptor the "Yom Kippur" missile.

Any others? I'm sure there are some religions I haven't offended yet. I'll give a prize to the first person who can think of a legitimate reason to rename a weapon after Kwanzaa.