Suddenly, we’re feeling a little less confident about the war in Afghanistan

How strange is this video from Afghanistan? Don’t ask, don’t tell.

TheSmokingGun.com has the story of America’s elite troops in action. Dance action, that is:

In what may be the most entertaining music video homage ever shot in a war zone, a group of American soldiers stationed at a military base in southwest Afghanistan star in a lip-synced version of Lady Gaga’s hit “Telephone.” The video, which yesterday began to spread online, was filmed recently inside what appears to be a garage at the Forward Operating Base in Farah Province. Posted to YouTube a week ago, the 3:45 production–complete with props, signs, and costumes–features an all-male cast from the 82nd Airborne Division. The video, which can be viewed above, was the brainchild of Aaron Melcher, a married 24-year-old soldier who graduated in 2004 from North Carolina’s Gramercy Christian School. Melcher opens the video in a pas de deux, of sorts, with fellow enlistee Justin Baker, who is not nearly as enthusiastic a dancer as the gyrating Melcher, who incorporated elements of the original video’s choreography in his desert remake.

Yeah, we know this video has become an internet sensation. But we prefer the ones where lots of bad guys get blown up.

But then, we don’t like Dancing With The Stars since Chuck Liddel got voted off, either.

Source: TheSmokingGun.com